Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of his report on his travels for a Christmas Eve broadcast to the Armed Forces. Anything left over he might tell Congress in his January state-of-the-union speech. At this point the disgusted Washington reporters, who had been scooped about Teheran and Cairo until they were raw, almost threw away their pencils. The President then, almost too casually, announced the so-called "plot" to assassinate the Big III at Teheran. This made satisfactory headlines for a few editions...
...make a moving reaffirmation of their dignity and style. Ruin sometimes adds beauty as well as pathos. Says Architectural Writer J. M. Richards in an eloquent preface: "The architecture of destruction not only possesses an aesthetic peculiar to itself, it contrives its effects out of its own range of raw materials. Among the most familiar are the scarified surface of blasted walls, the chalky substance of calcined masonry, the surprising sagging contours of once rigid girders and the clear siena colouring of burnt-out brick buildings, their rugged cross-walls receding plane by plane, on sunny mornings in the City...
...paradox is that these low-priced textiles do not exist mainly because OPA has succeeded in keeping prices down. But OPA's victory has also been the consumers' loss, because manufacturers of "low-end" goods, between soaring labor and raw materials costs on one side and inflexible ceilings on their prices on the other, found themselves squeezed out of profits. Result: they largely quit civilian production-and "upgraded" the rest. Half of production went into military orders. The other half became "higher-quality" merchandise-sometimes a matter of adding as little as an extra color to a fabric...
...with no top to raw cotton prices, and with textile labor agitating for higher wages in 1944, the textile industry is skeptical...
...shaven-pated peasant who has learned the tricks of silent deployment, timely retreat, ingenious ambuscade. But China's armies are defensive, their determination is only to hold on until Allied help comes. Many of Japan's 400,000 troops in China proper are overage, battle-green. Picked, raw units are sometimes sent to China for battle training, often initiate minor battles to get this training. But in general the debilitating psychological effect of the stalemate is as bad for the Japs as it is for the Chinese. The apathy and slow disintegration in China bear on the Allies...