Word: rude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upon row of colossal amaryllis plants and roses the size of softballs. The New York Botanical Garden copped the "best in show" trophy for its tropical rain-forest garden-a miasma of brackish water beneath a Dorothy Lamour-type waterfall bordered by orchids, palms, creeping vines, and a rude-looking plant called Amorphophalliis titannm, which stood 8 ft. high. The Amorphophalliis produces a single 3-ft. blossom resembling a chocolate-covered jack-in-the-pulpit ("the largest flower in the world") once in twelve to 20 years, then dies from the enormity of the act. Such exoticism...
...Browning, Lowell relies on energy, intelligence, originality, erudition. His best poems read like vigorous, carefully patterned prose. They are more vivid than sensitive; Lowell looks out at the world more often than he looks in on himself. The sonnet, To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage, conveys the rude vigor of the late-Lowell style...
Kennedy and Macmillan rejected the invitation, but hinted they might show up later if the early stages of the party seemed promising (TIME, Feb. 23). Attacking that reply as rude and destructive, Khrushchev repeated his invitation in sharper terms, only to be turned down by Kennedy again (although Macmillan reportedly urged him to accept). Meanwhile. President de Gaulle replied to K., ignoring the 18-member summit as far too big a shindig but proposing a more exclusive four-power parley (including France) on nuclear arms. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, who fears having the Berlin question dragged into disarmament...
Later, he added that the Committee is concerned about "behavior." "It's decidedly rude," Myerson explained "to yell out 'overthrow your Red masters' when a group of Russians leave a train. As in the past it is also liable to be injurious to one's person...
...Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, Defense Minister in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet, has always inspired bitter antagonism from opponents both in and out of India. Abusive, rude and overbearing, Menon, 64, is a Western-educated intellectual who despises the West, a passionate foe of old-time colonialism who consistently dismisses or ignores the new-style Communist imperialism. Nehru values Menon highly as a friend, confidant and traveling apostle. He admires his provocative intelligence, uses him as a shock absorber to take attacks that might otherwise be directed at him or his government. "Menon is like...