Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Could the price rise be justified by higher costs? Two freight-rate increases had boosted the cost of steel's raw materials; another boost in coal prices was in prospect. But scrap, which is a major cost in making steel, was selling at an average of only $27.25 a ton, compared with $43 a year ago. As for the new pension program-U.S. Steel officials could not, or would not, say what it would cost the company in the first year (guesses by outsiders ran as high as $80 million a year...
...Russian government. Through some queer quirk of diplomatic reasoning, it is no invasion to shoot our words across on electromagnetic waves in the other, but it is not quite cricket to send printed material across. That's a little too unconventional. In some way it is rather raw. It is not in accordance with the niceties of diplomatic practice...
...became an able mayor of Cologne and an effective figure in the pre-Hitler Catholic Center Party, but he has no experience in national administration. He has often been accused of being provincial, and he makes no secret of the fact that he prefers his native Rhineland to the raw, "uncivilized" Prussians; once he cracked to a Berlin friend: "Why do you go on living in a town where the monkeys still swing from the trees?" With his imperious eyes, his thin, determined lips, and his rather high, monotonous voice, Adenauer is not a popular leader, nor does he want...
Foaming 20-ft. waves burst over the rafts, and the chafing salt burns grew so bad that the airmen soon had to cut their heavy G.I. shoes away. Rain squalls swept past in raw, chilling gusts. Huddled painfully together, their knees jammed under their chins, the men in the rafts rode out the first night and second day. Now & then they heard search planes passing in one of the greatest air-rescue operations in peacetime history, but the aircraft were hampered by a lowering ceiling and the rafts were not sighted. It was not until after dusk of the second...
Montreal has long kept a cautious eye on art in the raw. This time was no exception. When a photographer arrived at the jail to take a picture of Roussil's statue, the police dutifully draped a towel around the father's ample loins (see cut). But their hearts were not entirely in their work. Said one policeman: "There is nothing wrong with this. It is nature. Even the Vatican has pure physiques of this type...