Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calling to mind the greatest days of China's history. It gives China what China's greatest statesmen have always sought-a vast natural buffer zone between her own centers of population and the vigorous pressure of the outland. Beneath Sinkiang's sands and mountains lie raw mineral resources which may match even Chinese optimism. The Russians have plotted a chain of oil deposits stretching almost a thousand miles, from the Pamirs to north of the Tien Shan (mountains...
...Irrational Knot. While Vegetarian Shaw ate Brussels sprouts and raw carrots and harangued against those who eat "the dead carcasses of animals," Mrs. Shaw ate juicy steaks and commented on his "rabbit food." He liked Wagner; she liked Bach. He was no churchman; she and one of her close friends, Lady Astor, became Christian Scientists...
Crouching in his cell, he at first flung his food away, spoke only in grunts. But by coaxing and offerings of raw meat, the villagers last week finally got a few words of broken Spanish and Portuguese out of him. It was indeed Pacifico Batista. His sweetheart had long since left the village. As for Pacifico, all he wanted was to get back to the jungle...
...than a lady, and both of them rather more primordially interested in each other than the Hays Office likes to feel that people should be. Director William Seiter seems to have fallen just short of a new sort of realistic, deeply indigenous comedy. His picture is often crude, sometimes raw, but definitely worth seeing...
...Textile firms found prices and quality of their products strictly regulated, as did medical industries, sugar, cheese and other food producers, raw-film manufacturers and private shipping companies whose rates were considered too high...