Word: churlishness
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Could it be possible that U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission was really getting somewhere? Russia's usually churlish Andrei Gromyko explained that "nobody is asking for secrets" and that what his country wants is a discussion of plans for peaceful and constructive utilization of atomic energy. That helped. Mr. Gromyko bought Bernard M. Baruch of the U.S. a 15? Coke at the hotel bar, and 75-year-old Mr. Baruch presented Mr. Gromyko with a cake, on his 37th birthday...
...Spanish Main (RKO Radio) is the kind of pleasant nonsense that has become practically a lost art: a gaudy, fancy-dress romance with a handsome, Robin-Hooded hero, a lovely, menaced heroine and dark, churlish villains. Director Frank Borzage has appropriately filmed it all in a blaze of riotous, slam-bang Technicolor...
Pale, egotistical student Jonathan Crow, whose only response to her love was an endless and epicene discussion of sex, was her obsession. She followed him to London, found him unchanged: churlish, perverse, still unable to bring himself either to accept her love or to reject...
...Land. The Border Region, a wilderness of loess cut into wild shapes by streams, broken by valleys and woodland, is generally fertile, but there is little rainfall. The Communists are slowly changing the face of this churlish land. Where the soil is cultivable, they have planted crops. Villages have plenty of pigs and chickens. Generally the inhabitants look sturdy, well-fed, well-clothed. The typical village home is an arched loess cave, whitewashed and faced with wood...
...portrait. The Arizona ranch which Pancho raids is owned by a gruff old character in a wheel chair (Lionel Barrymore). Both dialogue and action are thus resolved into a prolonged contest between the stallion snorts of Actor Beery and the crosspatch snuffles of Actor Barrymore. Barely submerged under these churlish exteriors lie warm old hearts which rescue true love and the mortgage in time's ticking nick...