Word: rude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point," he gasps. "It's rude...
...Boasting. As he arrived home in Moscow, Western diplomats as well as Communists added up his performance. He succeeded in showing that Russia was peace-minded, but made little attempt to show that Peking was too. He was not always public-relations smooth. His rude lecturing on the evils of the multi-party state irked India's multi-party Parliament, and his arrogant boasts that Soviet aid is purely altruistic, whereas Western loans always have strings attached, provoked Nehru to comment that nations grant aid to other nations "on the ground of enlightened self-interest." In Indonesia, Khrushchev hurt...
...health-office laboratory to have a bottle of milk examined. "Is nobody here?" she asked of Tom, who was alone in the lab. "Madam, something is wrong with your eyes," replied Mboya. Stomping out, the woman huffed: "I must have my work done by Europeans. This boy is very rude...
Teacup Serenade. It was the touchiest point in Macmillan's Africa tour. So far, he had been saying amiable nothings (TIME, Feb. 8). Now he hardly dared be rude to a "Commonwealth Club" member, even though it had just proclaimed its intention of becoming a republic (no longer recognizing Queen Elizabeth as its sovereign). If he spoke too sharply, he might increase South Africa's harsh feeling of isolation without changing its policies. His hosts had serenaded him with a rattle of teacups and surrounded him with politicians, businessmen and plain folks, all of them white...