Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major William Mallory, onetime Yale ('24) footballer, studied the huge map of northern Italy in his headquarters, noted that the wide Po River had remarkably few bridges. All the German supplies for the fighting front, all the raw materials for war industries in the Po Valley, had to funnel through some two dozen rail and road spans. Major Mallory drew his plan, presented it to his commander, Major General John K. Cannon of the Twelfth (Tactical) Air Force...
Last week four U.S. correspondents, including TIME'S Richard Lauterbach, returned to Moscow with the vision of a new, raw world still in their eyes. By permission of Marshal Stalin, they had gone with Eric Johnston into the industrial empire beyond the Urals...
...Cabinet's oldest member, its strongest personality. When appointed, he was in his fifth term as mayor of Moose Jaw (pop: 20,500). Eastern bred and eastern educated (Toronto University), he is now as western as Moose Jaw. He firmly believes the rural west has had a raw deal from St. James Street (Canada's Wall Street...
...impossible to state in precise terms how uncomfortable the situation was. It was true that mobilization had rubbed the nation's race problem raw. Pinko agitators, self-styled liberals and other citizens of good will had plucked at the sore. The thin-skinned and irritable Negro press, which has seldom missed a report of injustice to Negro troops and has played it for all it would stand, continued to print most of the sensational and baseless yarns which flew around, from standard soldiers' gripes on up. The truth lay somewhere between such red-eyed denunciation and the bland...
...infantrymen pointing his gun down a side road. There a helmetless German stumbled out into the open, hands in the air. His right wrist had been shattered by a bullet and from his upraised arm the hand dangled by a few bloody shreds of raw flesh. A civilian came up, searched him. Our troops waved him to the rear, went...