Word: rude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free nations, even those that have not yet fully learned all the lessons of economic discipline. That stability enabled them to weather, with no more than a momentary flutter, crises that ranged in 1963 from outright revolutions and strong leftward shifts in government to Charles de Gaulle's rude exclusion of Britain from the Common Market and the assassination of the U.S. President...
...will accept a Negro fourth; they merely assign the Negro, and the foursome heads onto the course. A New York adoption agency is asking white families to take Negro children. Louise Morgan, a former Chicago advertising executive, says: "I had conned myself into thinking I was a liberal. The rude awakening occurred less than a year ago, when a Negro writer and his family sought an apartment in my building and were turned down. I had met him. He was bright and a gentleman. Yet I didn't lift a finger to help him. That's all changed...
...viewed by some as being perhaps unlettered and in some ways he is unlettered . . . not the most well-read, but he has the greatest human understanding that you will ever encounter ... He is a person of great charm and great poise. At times he can be almost brusque and rude, [but he is] always determined, always firm ... an indomitable worker, working always for perfection...
...German. Bissier's fragile modes had rude beginnings. Son of a French-descended blacksmith whose forebears moved to the Black Forest from Toulouse, Bissier first explored landscape. Gold medals came his way, but after the Third Reich banned him from exhibiting in 1933 and a disastrous fire at his Freiburg University studio destroyed all his work the next year, he cast aside the past...
...Thailand and Laos, it is extremely rude to display the sole of the foot or to sit with legs crossed. "It is wise, physically as well as metaphorically, to keep both feet on the ground...