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Word: rawness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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They live in crude, sandbagged underground bunkers where often the only light comes from an improvised candle with a rag as a wick. There are no connecting trenches; the leathernecks, some of them raw teenagers, must move at a run from bunker to bunker. Where once a crude French fortress stood, not a single building or even a tent breaks the bleak horizon. Often the only signs of life are a horde of bold rats and a few cats. "The men think they keep the rats down," grumbled one officer. "I suspect they share the garbage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Thunder from a Distant Hill | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...Titicut Follies shows that, unhappily, not every institution for the mentally ill is as enlightened as Warrendale. Some are trapped in traditions as old as Bedlam, and one such is seen in this raw, poorly edited report on Bridgewater Hospital for the Criminally Insane in the Titicut area of Massachusetts. As filmed by Frederick Wiseman and John Marshall, who had the cooperation of the institute's authorities, the life of the patients seems like an echo of Marat/Sade, an existence bereft of dignity or honor. Old men are paraded naked to their cells and taunted by guards who make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festival Attraction, Side-Show Action | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

Given this, raw probability considering all possibilities predicts the following chances to win or tie: the bookmakers probability Minn 1 in 2 3 in 4 Det 1 in 4 1 in 4 Bos 1 in 6 less than in 4 Chic...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Bookies Err; Bet on Hose | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

While President Johnson dined on julienne of raw spinach and filet mignon forestiere at a $1000 dollar-a-couple Democratic fund-raising dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel, the protestors marched to meet him from a public park one mile away...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: In the Shadow of the Glassboro Summit, Policemen Stir Up the Anti-War Movement | 9/27/1967 | See Source »

...critic of Ec 1, Jonathan M. Haris '68, warned freshmen in the course that they are "the raw material for the perpetuation of the Ecksteins and Gills. You get tools you're going to need if you're going to be a Presidential advisor next time around...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: What's the Matter With Harvard? "They Don't Trust Us," Seniors Say | 9/27/1967 | See Source »

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