Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Lamar started the season with a veritable hall of fame of prep-school football. But it took two victories, two defeats and two months of grueling practices alongside the stadium to build a team from the raw materials...
...almost to the last attitude. Down the corridor he trails, stumbling here and there over an academic problem, an idea on the loose, or a dissident personality. The College, with all its weapons, faces an enormous problem before it can hope to unseat the hard-riding stereotypes of its raw material...
...elements represented by them. The Communists rushed in with an ably led, hit-and-run army to take advantage of the increasing paralysis striking at China's economic life. By hitting at weakly held lines of communication they have immobilized most of the government troops and starved industry of raw materials...
...Where the Kuomintang rules, the farmers see produce taxed or confiscated out of their hands; the Communist ruled portions face a "militia" which drafts men wholesale before each campaign. Wrecked railroad lines have made everything but small industry impossible in the cities which are largely dependent upon them for raw materials. Meanwhile the Kuomintang armies have slowly given way to the more mobile Communist columns, which are more able to live off the land than their opponents...
...formation of a "Continental mind." Hard, cunning, and loose-living, the mountain men develop as a strange breed with a passion to destroy the country they loved. They trapped foolishly with no idea of the future. In their society a man's ability was his only passport to a raw life that revolved around beaver, whiskey, and squaws. The mountain men opened a territory and thereby insured their own extinction. Contrast the trappers with Nat Wyeth, a shrewd New England merchant with big ideas. 'On paper Wyeth was approximating John Jacob Astor." Theory wouldn't work in the Rockies...