Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Soviet Russia to Sumatra and across the broad Pacific to South America, Japanese businessmen smilingly signed agreements last week that will guarantee them industrial raw materials for years to come. To the Russians, the Japanese pledged $200 million in pipe and liquefication equipment with which to develop the Okha natural-gas fields of Soviet-held Sakhalin island: in return, 7,000,000 cu. ft. per year of Sakhalin gas will be shipped to Japan. In Sumatra, Japanese oilmen promised to invest $15 million to carry on offshore oilfield drilling; Indonesia will keep 39% of the oil produced...
...lean, well-written memoir-some of which echoes material in The Learning Tree-Parks describes how often he came within an eyelash of choosing violence and raw, corrosive hatred as his weapons in the struggle for dignity. After a fight with three white toughs in St. Paul, Minn.-a battle that left him with a dozen scars from getting pitched through a plate-glass storefront-he reflected how the white man's brutality "was nudging me into a hatred of him." After his first walk through Harlem's streets, he was convinced that "Mister Ofay"-the white...
Strange. There is only sporadic violence in this "war movie." In contrast to a movie like Operation Crossbow, whose subject was sabotage of Nazi missiles, this film centers around the mere raw material of a menace. It is predictably low on suspense...
...Raw Delicacy. By Western standards, sailfish and marlin are practically inedible. Even the Japanese can think of nothing better to do with the coarse oily sailfish than grind it up into fish sausages. But marlin is considered a delicacy in meat-short Japan, where it is served fried or raw-garnished with soy sauce and horseradish to make a dish called sashimi...
...designs were attempts to produce the raw materials of the study -- the photographed tracks of thousands of collisions between two moving particles, an electron and an positron. Normal accelerator experiments send one particle into a stationary target...