Word: rude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Temporary Control. The censorship so far has been light. Journalists no longer write direct attacks against the Russians, no longer refer to Russian soldiers as "occupying troops," but their stories are anything but friendly. Rude Pravo reported with oblique subtlety that any agreements Dubček made in Moscow had been dictated by "unimaginably abnormal circumstances," conducted a quick public-opinion poll that showed that Dubček and his reforms had overwhelming popular support...
...this frustrating atmosphere, some Russian soldiers were getting trigger-happy and tough. Retaliating against lone snipers who took potshots at them during the night, they sent up flares and raked whole neighborhoods with small-arms fire. After they spotted some armed men on the roof of the Rude Pravo newspaper office. Soviet machine gunners opened fire, riddling the building's facade and shattering windows; their targets turned out to be Russian troops. The soldiers began firing without warning at anyone seen in the streets after the 10 p.m. curfew. In Prague, they killed at least three people and wounded...
Last week, at her first press conference back in the Governor's man sion, she bravely, if nervously, faced a battalion of reporters. "I'm not the speechmaker of the family," she said, "I'm the homemaker and mother." But she answered questions, some of them rude, with ingenuous spirit. To explicit queries about her weight (140 Ibs. at 5 ft. 4 in.) and dieting, she allowed: "I try to eat just sliced chicken at lunch, but I get sick of it: sometimes I think I'm going to start cackling myself." She tries to avoid...
...severely beaten. Fighting spread all over the main streets of Zurich and dragged on until dawn. Next evening, there were more clashes when students stoned a police station where 20 youths were being held. In all, about 50 students and police were injured in the clashes. It was a rude awakening for Zurich, which so prides itself on its peaceful setting that its road signs announce: "A quiet town has fewer sick people...
...took a quiet, steady look at Kennedy the man. Two of the most eloquent eulogies were delivered by two of his severest critics. "He was, despite his passions," said Mary McGrory, "a remarkably competent human being. He programmed his pity for the poor. He was fierce. He could be rude. He shared the family conviction that the Kennedys, if not born, had at least been bred to rule. And he attracted the adulation and the rage which his clan, with their splendid, doomed lives, aroused in a nation that had never seen such a compelling collection of human beings...