Word: rude
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What about your car? The patrolman may seize any contraband that is in plain view, but the Fourth Amendment prohibits a search inside the car unless he has sound reasons for thinking that it contains contraband or illegal weapons. Your rights will not count for much if you are rude, however, because the officer can still choose to make a formal arrest for your traffic offense. If he does, he can then thoroughly search both you and the passenger compartment...
...room. The first alarm will wake you without making you get out of bed. Before the second one rings later (at a reasonable time you determine), you will have mentally prepared for it. Even if you fall back to sleep, the second alarm will be less of a rude surprise...
...taking itself seriously, Starstruck makes the current gult of new wave films look positively silly. From the stumbling lines and stagy acting of the Clash's Rude Boy to the slick but soulless Smithereens, the punk "message" film takes a deserved beating at the hands of its sendup. Having reached the likes of "Quincy," "60 Minutes" and Hollywood, New Wave is old hat, and somebody ought to be laughing...
Students here at Harvard are not the only ones plagued by midnight fire alarms. First year residents of newly constructed dormitories at Stanford University have had so many rude awakenings that officials there have been forced to change their smoke alarm system...
...certainly would be more impressed by someone who wasn't rude than by someone who was," said Sandra Spanier, assistant to the Kirkland roasters, "I usually ask people to have their friends in the House write letters...