Word: rude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last five weeks have brought a rude awakening to the American military. The mounting fury of the Tet offensive and the battles for Saigon and Hue have revealed how grossly American intelligence has underestimated Communist military strength. For the first time since full-fledged American involvement began, the assumption that American military might would ultimately prevail is being seriously questioned...
...have to sweat to get the common people into his book and he doesn't take the trouble. So history becomes the battle of great thinkers, each a bit self-conscious in this un-Hegelian day and age, looking over his shoulder now and again to see if the rude folk are in fact trailing along behind...
Curle remains convinced, however, that education can provide answers to the problems of rising expectation. He will be on sabbatical next semester and hopes to use the time to straighten out his thoughts on how schooling can prepare black children, particularly in the States, for the rude awakening graduation provides. In April, Merril Jackson of Michigan State University's Center for Conflict Resolution is coming to Harvard to work with Curle...
Karl Marx was very rude about people like William Morris, the poet, artist-craftsman and social revolutionary. "Christian Socialism," he wrote in the Communist Manifesto, "is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat...
Through that distant and serene period, Churchill moved with the insistent and often rude force of a man in a hurry to reach command. "We are all worms," he told Violet Asquith, the Prime Minister's daughter, "but I do believe I am a glowworm...