Word: boorishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Silence & Counterblast. Yale's official reaction to the Buckley blast was a cold silence. But unofficially, it was ablaze with counterblasts. The Yale Daily News denounced Buckley as a "child of the Middle Ages." Economist John Perry Miller denounced his book as "warped and distorted . . . scurrilous and boorish." Said Philosopher Theodore M. Greene...
Said the Laborite Daily Herald: "If a labor member had been guilty of so indiscreet and offensive a reference to a friendly nation the matter would have been plastered across the headlines. But . . . Churchill. . . can display boorish ill manners and the Tory press does not give so much as a deprecatory cough...
...take each other prisoner, settled battles with silver bullets (.i.e., cash bribes), often left one city gate open for retreat when they had surrounded a rival, even provided transport for the defeated general's belongings (they hoped for a return of the courtesy in reversed circumstances), considered it boorish to attack in bad weather. Mao fought for keeps...
...boorish, pompous, patronizing and ill-considered remarks of Freshman Robinson should be excused, if not condoned, on the grounds of his patent youth and immaturity...
...behind the North Korean army. Titularly Soviet ambassador to the Korean "People's Republic," he is actually Stalin's proconsul, ruling North Korea (through Kim II Sung) from his roomy, three-story mansion, built on the site of the old Presbyterian Mission compound in Pyongyang. Burly, deadpanned, boorish, he was Soviet delegate on the Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. [Korean] Commission in 1946. His U.S. opposite number was Major General A. V. Arnold. At one session Shtykov observed testily: "Lenin once said that any man who trusted another was a fool." Arnold looked thoughtfully across the green felt tabletop, replied...