Word: boor
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...well, you will enjoy it. If you join little cliques, you will be self-satisfied; if you make friends widely, you will be interesting. If you gossip, you will be slandered; if you mind your own business, you will be liked. If you act like a boor, you will be despised; if you act like a human being, you will be respected. If you spurn wisdom, wise people will spurn you; if you seek wisdom, they will seek you. If you adopt a pose of boredom, you will be a bore; if you show vitality, you will be alive...
...like this: "We'll come in and tell you what's wrong with your business for $100." Once in, May's "actioneers" get to work "opening the job," and sell the client-who falls into one of 49 types ("Penny Pincher, Stone Face, the Playboy, the Boor, the Weakling")-a long service which often costs thousands...
...must have been referring to the old-time machines which use block ice to cool their boor," Cronin added. "Our machines are refrigerated and are made of stainless steel...
Charge Three is an issue because it accuses the Senator of being more than a boor; it shows that he would subvert constitutional guarantees. To manhandle generals and senators is one thing; to manhandle the law is quite another. McCarthy claimed that federal employees are duty bound to give him information, "even though some little bureaucrat has stamped it 'secret' to protect himself." Either he had a right to make such a claim on the prerogatives of the executive, or he didn't. The Watkins Committee should have made this clear one way or the other...
...businessman in the fiction of the '20s and '30s not merely seemed a boor and a menace: he was scarcely a real human being. He was a full-time symbol, unable to buy a new necktie without illustrating "conspicuous consumption,'' or to fall in love without serving as a comment on "bourgeois morality." But in recent years, the businessman has been emerging as a human and something of a hero. The trend seems transatlantic. In the past year Britain's Nigel Balchin published Private Interests and in 1952 the U.S.'s Cameron Hawley contributed...