Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Churchill and President Roosevelt wrote the Atlantic Charter and came to the section about free access to raw materials, Churchill inserted the phrase "With due respect for their existing obligations." "These," said he, "are the limiting words . . . inserted for the express purpose of retaining to this House and to the Dominions the fullest possible rights and liberties over the question of imperial preference...
Retreat. Frossia found a job. She typed documents about transgressors of the new economic decrees: speculators in food, currency, timber, building material, raw chemicals, leather, steel, the theft of a sockful of rough amethysts in the Urals, the theft of 500 Ib. of raw glycerine. Her superiors lectured her: "The Party aims have been well defined by Comrade Bukharin. . . ." But she could not understand them. "Imperial or Soviet, she thought, we Russians will never change." Anna von Packen said, "Working for them? How can you? . . . You will not stand aloof from them. Therefore you are helping their ghastly revolution...
...raw material for TIME'S first worth of newspapers and magazines which our editors "mined'' for news. And they still "mine" hundreds of papers for you each week-papers in French and German and Russian and Spanish and many another tongue-so many of them that it would take you more than 19 days of continuous reading to plough through a single issue of each of them (even if you could read all the languages...
...Chicago gave signs of leading a movement into the main tent. The University's President Robert Maynard Hutchins accepted as a gift Eastman Classroom Films, Inc., a $1,000,000 outfit which has been pretty much in the doldrums because the educational buyers of Eastman's raw film have never liked the competition of finished Eastman reels...
...raw onions between meals, frequently carried an alarm clock dangling from his hand in place of a watch, scrubbed his hide regularly with a stiff tooth brush. He followed Yoga, was a physical fitness fanatic, refused to smoke but enjoyed good food and wine. He read widely-from Plato to comic strips-and remembered everything. He loved music and the Bible, was a serious student of philosophy, strategy, religious history. He knew the Army manuals and the lives of all the great generals by heart. He spoke fluent Arabic and Hebrew. He was a formidable and logical argufier...