Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...onetime Princeton basketball player who practiced law for ten years in New Richmond, Wis., Doar is a model of raw courage. At Ole Miss with Chief U.S. Marshall McShane, when mobs tried to block the entrance of the university's first Negro student, James Meredith, Doar risked his own life three times to contact the besieged feds in the campus Lyceum. With Deputy (now Acting) Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, he walked past Governor George Wallace in the doorway at the University of Alabama. Doar is best remembered as the hero of a vivid confrontation between rock-tossing Negroes...
Britain needs to import vast quantities of food and raw material to live, but it seems increasingly unable to afford the price of these imports. Although British exports are still among the world's highest and have risen steadily in absolute terms, the nation's share of world exports has been steadily declining. A measure of Britain's plight is that the Beatles' 1963 overseas earnings of $56 million was hailed as a major contribution to the balance of payments. Another measure is that in the past decade Britain has almost exactly reversed positions with Germany...
Citing Kerr's book, Uses of the University, Savio asserted that the University President views students as the "raw material" who are fed into the knowledge factory, "where all the rough edges are taken off and smooth, slick products come...
...professional attention. Working independently, he and Feodor Lynen, the co-winner of the prize and director of the Max Planck Institute for Cell Chemistry in Munich, have puzzled out the 36-step process by which acetic acid is transformed into Cholesterol. Cholesterol is known to be the raw material of the sex hormones; some researchers believe that excess cholesterol causes heart disease. While this theory has not been confirmed, the Nobel Committee observed in its citation that "The therapy against circulatory diseases and related disturbances ... will in the future rest upon the form foundation laid by Bloch and Lynen...
...South Asia showcase of enlightened management (Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have visited them) but has propelled himself into the industry's top position as Pakistan's "Jute King." His Adamjee Jute Mills Ltd. produce a third of Pakistan's jute goods and consume more raw jute than all of the mills in Britain, which ranks second to Pakistan in the manufacture of jute products...