Word: crude
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...over his shoulder. Europe watched troop movements in Santo Domingo while bullets still ricocheted across the Caribbean town ... And between the best and the worst that TV had to offer, imaginative men could pick out the promise of a dream born more than a century ago, when the first crude telegraph suggested that man might some day far outreach the limitations of his speech and hearing. #151;TIME...
...Sunday they were ousted by incoming Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his Socialist party. Conservative pundits, like New York Times columnist David Brooks, have been quick to denounce the Spaniards for appeasing Al Qaeda. Their arguments are not without merit, but they are overly crude and mistakenly conflate the fight against Islamic terrorism with the war against Iraq...
Hogan, the CEO of Clear Channel Communications, discovered that Howard Stern can be crude. Clear Channel, the nation’s largest radio company, has been making millions off of Stern’s antics for years. Unfortunately for Stern, after Janet Jackson’s bare breast shocked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) into enforcing a new code of decency on the airwaves—clearly a priority for the country right now—Hogan discovered Stern’s curious style and decided the show wasn’t appropriate for radio. Citing its desire to protect...
...should focus more of its attention on the real indecency on America’s airwaves. Howard Stern may be crude, but Clear Channel’s reckless behavior, and the steady deregulation that let it become the loudest voice in American radio, is obscene...
...always faced the worst fear: defeat in battle. But in democracies at least, war leaders also confront another danger: success. The qualities that make for great statesmanship in wartime--determination, a single focus on victory, a black-and-white conviction of who is friend or foe--can often seem crude or overbearing when peace comes around. The most dramatic example of this in Western history is Winston Churchill. It is no exaggeration to say that without him, Britain may well have been destroyed by Hitler. He was the difference between victory and defeat. But almost the minute that victory...