Word: churlish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fresh off the New Republic, came to the Times in January, after Howard Taubman was promoted out of his aisle seat. Kauffmann must have been warned about Merrick, who is the adulte terrible of Broadway producers and who, because he complained so frequently about the Times's churlish commentaries on Merrick productions, might like to take credit for Taubman's departure...
...stress on consumer goods and light industrial development-two aims in which Brezhnev and Kosygin concur. With much snarling about warlike U.S. imperialism, they also raised the Soviet defense budget by 5%. But the hike was in keeping with overall budget increases, and the snarling was foreshadowed by a churlish interview granted to New York Times Columnist James Reston by Kosygin earlier in the week...
...really changed since the end of the Printers' disastrous strike two years ago. After that one, Abe Raskin of the New York Times Editorial Board wrote a long, lucid account of the strike in which he took both publishers and unions to task for their crammed and churlish attitude toward each other. In the Times last week, as well as in the Reporter, Raskin gave a repeat performance-chastising his own employers as well as the unions...
...McGeorge Bundy's churlish reply deserves high marks, if he wants them, for its chilliness and scorn. However, these are not qualities that I, at least, greatly admire in a public official so fatefully close to the President of the U.S. They are signs not of intellectual incisiveness or of moral rigor but only of bureaucratic self-righteousness and too-prolonged insulation from the ever-growing anxieties that Mr. Bundy's ex-colleagues in universities everywhere feel toward the foreign policies that he has helped to shape in recent years. His mind is more rapid than accurate, more...
...attitude of both labor and employer toward Miss Perkins," snapped New York's churlish Robert Moses, "is a good deal like that of habitués of a waterfront saloon toward a visiting lady slummer-grim, polite and unimpressed." Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior was constantly annoyed by her. "She talks in a perfect torrent, almost without pausing to take breath," he complained...