Word: rude
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When OPEC and oil prices went south, there were minicelebrations at gas pumps across the Lower 48. In Alaska, as in Kuwait and Dubai, there were rude awakenings. Alaska derives a higher percentage (86%) of its general fund from oil taxes than any other oil-producing state. As the price of a barrel of crude oil tumbled from the high 20s down through the teens to about $9, the state began to run on empty...
Boston Garden was transformed into a bigger Bright Center Saturday when the Harvard men's hockey team played St. Lawrence in the final of the ECAC Tournament. But the usual Harvard cheers, for the home rink, seemed strangely rude in the Garden...
West German elation at Hamadei's arrest quickly dissolved when Cordes, then Schmidt, was kidnaped. It was immediately assumed that the abductors planned to use the West German hostages as bargaining chips for Hamadei's release. The hostage takings were a rude awakening for West Germans. For years Bonn has cultivated good relations throughout the Muslim world. Partly as a result, the three-year spree of kidnapings in Lebanon, until now aimed mostly at the U.S. and France, has had little impact on Germans living in Beirut, who continued to operate more or less normally...
...rink comes equipped with wild--and sometimes rude-fans...
...room assignments, the officials asked if couples would like to share a double room. Several "yes" answers were greeted with a few snickers. When a group of middle-aged nuns asked if they could remain together, the passengers in the back of the auditorium laughed, and one made a rude comment...