Word: rudenesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonderful Shoulder Arms and the somewhat less wonderful but far more typical The Little American, in which German soldiers battered at the stateroom doors of the foundering Lusitania in their eagerness to get at U.S. Red Cross nurses. Such films were reportedly shown on hospital ceilings and in rude theaters 90 ft. under the blasts of Verdun. It is hardly surprising that veterans turn up, now & then, who remember dugouts gratefully named Keystone Kottage, Vitagraph Village...
...been an extraordinary fortnight in the air over North Africa. The sky, except for a few rude little patches, belonged to the Allies. Across its trackless terrain thundered all the fine names-the Flying Fortresses, Halifaxes, Wellingtons, Liberators, Bisleys, Mitchells, Bostons, Marauders, Baltimores, Lightnings, Spitfires, Beaufighters, Hurri-bombers, Aira-cobras, Kittyhawks, Warhawks. But though the aerial terrain was trackless, the pattern of the thunder was very exact, very formal-and very effective...
...voter could cast in La Prensa's poll was limited only by the number of copies of La Prensa he could get his hands on, the poll had a somewhat dubious quality. But since ballot-box stuffing was general for all contestants, the poll did represent a rude cross section of New York City's Latin American opinion. And that opinion (with some 200,000 Spanish-speaking inhabitants, New York is the biggest Latin city north of the Tropic of Cancer) is undoubtedly passionately informed...
...picked up an old Haig and Haig bottle and sniffed at it absent mindedly. A rude knock on the door shattered his abstraction. He wheeled around to come face-to-face with a brand new cherub of about 17, who set down the bag he was carrying and looked around the room possessively. Vag stifled a snarl. "Are you my roommate?" the Freshman asked, amiably. Vag took the splinter of goal post off the wall, flipped his cigarette into the fireplace and strode out of the room, closing the door behind...
...area-medical units designed to bring tents and equipment for 25 patients within 10,000 yards of the firing line. But the jungle portables have evolved into something else: they creep up to within 750 yards of the battle line, expand their capacity by making use of rude huts of native grass, do their work only 30 or 40 minutes by litter from the spots where men are wounded...