Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weightily, are "educational advance and economic development." To strengthen the first pillar, he proposed to set up 30 annual two-year scholarships for promising colonials. To stiffen the second, he recommended fostering "secondary industries [for] processing native products [and] simple manufacturing, not requiring the import of large quantities of raw materials ... to make the colonies self-supporting." However, Britain would still draw semi-finished goods from the colonies for her specialized industries...
...about the time it takes to stamp out a pile of ants," Number 8 of the Navy's torpedoplane squadrons was utterly smashed by ack-ack and Zeros at the Battle of Midway. "The squadron was like a raw egg thrown into an electric fan, and only three men came out of the action alive." Reformed, Torpedo 8 was flung straight into the Battle for the Solomons under the leadership of ardent, painstaking "Swede" Larsen. Armed with stubby Grumman Avengers, Torpedo 8 changed its old slogan from "Attack" to "Attack-and Vengeance...
...burden is over. When the Axis falls we shall find ourselves faced by the blaze in Asia. It will be fanned by the irresistible wind of Asia's determination to be free, and kept alive by men who outnumber us by millions and who possess raw materials which reduce the natural resources of even America to small proportions...
...valley's traffic is now badly disrupted. Wholesale evacuation of refugees from the bomb-strafed centers has further complicated the mess. As the Ruhr produces roughly three quarters of Germany's coal, four fifths of her coke and two thirds of the nation's raw iron and steel, the effect of transport disruption on German industry as a whole is great...
...time the three older children had recovered completely from infantile paralysis, and Louise enough to be able to use crutches, the '20s were in full swing and the hectic community life boiled over. Mrs. Pierson was in all of it. Most of it rubbed the social nerves raw - provocative speeches by liberals to Tories; provocative shows by the amateur theater; acrobatic dancing; folk singing. One day her husband came home from the National City Bank and said, "It's Charlie Mitchell. ... I got the ax along with 33 others. We got two hours to clear...