Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening, if he has no urgent meeting, he dines at home with Isobel. Their menu: carrots or other raw vegetables, black bread, fruit. Ever since he drove for the Red Cross in France during World War I, Cripps has been bothered by intestinal trouble. In 1935 he became a vegetarian. Cripps and Isobel eat no cooked foods, except for an occasional boiled potato...
Tightening the Screws. Justly or not, some Britons suspect a connection between Cripps's austere appearance, his cold baths, his raw carrots, and the increasing national austerity. Said the Economist: "However right Sir Stafford is at present, it is difficult to suppress the suspicion that he is right because he is in his element, because he positively prefers an austere, restricted, controlled economy, because, like the tympanist in an orchestra, his instinct, when he has nothing else to do, is to go around tightening up all the screws...
...swollen orange moon, hanging low in the sky like a Chinese lantern, peered fitfully through the clammy fog. It was a raw night, and Parisians pulled their coats tightly around them as they hurried back to unheated homes. Beside me, huddled in muffler and tattered topcoat, Anatole Carvin, 61, sat on a rickety stool and hawked his roast chestnuts...
...being consistent. The Marshall Plan, he fears, will be bad for Brazilian business as well as for Europe's Communists. His reasoning, as he laid it down to the Inter-American Council of Production and Commerce at Petrópolis: if Latin America must increase its exports of raw materials and foodstuffs to Europe by 30 to 50% in the next four years, as the plan calls for, another "war economy" will develop. Then workers will be drawn from industry into low-profit farming and mining; import of U.S. machinery will be difficult because Europe...
John F. Wohlwill '49, one of Mosteller's agents, was too absorbed in his clinical analysis to, volunteer any premature diagnosis. But Mrs. Naney Boeneau, Radcliffe. '40, found "fine raw material for further deductions" in the antics of the spirited...