Word: rude
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make a comment in class. Yet to each of those people, he has just defined himself as inconsiderate, selfish and irritating. And if he interrupts the same student again, or if the same person lands behind him twice during his little spaghetti ritual, then he is branded as obnoxious, rude and "annoying...
...Undergraduate Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70 for saying, "This is a place open to talent... we don't get hung up on irrelevant attributes." The point is this: if I were Adair's interviewer, I would never have asked her, "Do you have a boyfriend?" It is a rude question to ask anyone, whatever his or her sexual orientation. It has nothing to do with Adair's academic performance, and nothing to do with her qualifications for the scholarship...
Last season Harvard gave Cozza a rude farewell with a 26-21 win in Cambridge. And in 1995 the Crimson entered The Game without a victory in Ivy play and upset the Bulldogs...
...expressed by their elders. Thecla Hoeberechts, 13, who is of Dutch and Greek ancestry, often plays in Ridgefield Park, N.J., with friends of different races. Thecla says an older friend recently asked her why she hangs out with black people all the time: "She said, 'Look how loud and rude they are.'" Children of color face similar pressures. Cynthia Bou, 13, a Dominican-American friend of Thecla's, says an older cousin asked her why some of her friends are white. "White people are whack," she warned Cynthia. "You're going to change when they treat you wrong...
What Wok'n'Roll lacks in atmosphere, it unfortunately doesn't make up for in the quality of service or cuisine. The waitress is frightening with her icy glare and rude tactics. The tea is served cold, as are your dishes, which will arrive in the wrong order--appetizer after entrees. The chicken is suspiciously shaped; you may be tempted to ask, "Is this chicken or a curly fry?" The food drips with grease, which makes one wonder why all the disheveled, asexually-clad customers come from the two gyms across the street. Don't they know what they...