Word: rude
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following morning, Fisherman Bertil Sturkman got a rude surprise. Rowing his dory past Little Horse Island, a rocky nodule in the Blekinge cluster 330 miles south of Stockholm, he sighted a 250-ft. Soviet "Whiskey"-class patrol submarine, No. 137, hard aground about 10 yds. offshore. Sturkman rowed on to deliver news of his find, and thus began an international fuss worthy of the 1966 comedy film The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming...
...tournament to advance to next weekend's regionals in Amherst. The ultimates cruised through Saturday's prelims, dumping Keene St., Brown and Bryant College. In Sunday's double elimination finals, the Crimson sandwiched wins over Cape Cod Airbourne and Roger Williams College around a tough loss to the Boston Rude Boys, 16-9, to clinch a regional slot...
...melodrama. Graig is not much for the sort of public theater these three seemed to enjoy when all were together in New York City. Nevertheless, Nettles found himself center stage at the team's victory party in Oakland. Angry that several guests of Jackson's had been rude to his family, Nettles confronted his teammate, and the two got into a spirited shoving match. "It's nothing new for this team," Nettles said. "I hope it's forgotten...
...five years that Kathy has worked as a University operator, probably no one has spoken to more Harvard students (except her fellow operators), and yet probably no one knows less about them. "Some of them are rude, some of them are real nice, some of them are stuck up, some of them are real friendly," she says. "It's hard to form attitudes about them... I meet them as voices, and only for 20 seconds apiece...
...takes the earplug out of her ear to fix her hair. "You know, it'd be nice if people knew we weren't just cold-blooded. We do have feelings, we don't like it if people hang up on us, we don't like it if people are rude to us. And we do like it if people talk...