Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misery of China's peasants, filth, disease, widespread begging, shocked raw young Americans. Their own discomforts -the mud, the lack of women, the food-rubbed them rawer still. They heard ugly stories-of Lend-Lease material being stored for use after the war instead of against the Jap, of hoarding and profiteering by merchants, of smuggling from India and trade with the Japanese, of excessive tax burdens on the peasants...
...public C.I.O.'s policy makers carefully avoided any commitments on a Fourth Term for Franklin Roosevelt. President Philip Murray blamed the President and Congress equally for the raw deal that labor leaders insist that labor has been getting, added bluntly: "I don't like Washington as it is today." Agile Sidney Hillman, chairman of the new committee for political action, hedged with a prudent : "We will make our commitment...
...sales of liquor at prices above ceilings; 2) pressure-sales of wine, sherry, raw Cuban gin or Puerto Rican rum before any whiskey conies out from under the counter. In Los Angeles retailers frantically tried to switch their customers.from bour bon to tequila, which was flooding across the border because it sells for $1 a fifth in Mexico...
...economic pattern of German conquest has been clear and consistent. First came a vast physical looting, in which trains were requisitioned to carry to Germany movable property: machinery, raw materials, food stocks, books, scientific instruments, horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, art objects and collections, furniture, park benches, clothing, soap, hardware, garden tools, bed linen, doorknobs. The trains themselves seldom returned...
...bird now has its own personal maid, whom it summons either by name or by making a noise like a buzzer. A noisily temperamental showoff, it breakfasts on hard-boiled egg yolks and orange juice, later polishes off a raw carrot and a slice of banana mixed with mockingbird seed. Good performances mean good meals of grapes. But this diet has to be regulated, because Raffles sometimes gets grape-happy and will not perform at all. Raffles sleeps in a nest of hot-water bottles. Being a tropical bird, it could not live otherwise...