Word: rude
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although NATO has managed to overcome most of the setbacks caused by its miscalculations, it may take years to recover from others. Herewith a catalogue of U.S. policy Pollyannaisms, and the rude awakenings they occasioned...
...Rude Awakening 1: The Serbs were prepared to fight hard for Kosovo...
...hope is to break the mold," she said. "Our very presence is a revolutionary step to a new age. We will change the world, be rebellious, improper and just a little rude. The nature of this flower is to bloom. We are the revolutionary petunias...
...This rude, curt and genuinely self-absorbed behavior, all in the name of academic focus, reminds me of an appropriate adage from the Adams House tunnels, that keeps me in check on a daily basis...
...there (they are counting on you)! Oh! The thought of what could happen if you don't get there in time (if you don't turn it in on time!) Don't do laundry! Don't hold the door for the guy behind you! Be rude! Leave the dining hall trays piled with the half-eaten food outside your door! Don't make eye contact! You are NOT trivial like they are! Because you are the CRUX! The LYNCHPIN that holds the universe together! You are a HARVARD student! And no person anywhere EVER has done anything approaching the vital...