Word: rude
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...with its Stalinist housing bunkers and oppressive military bearing, the city became a grimmer place, but one that was anchored, orderly, predictable, even if, to many outsiders, drab and downcast. By 1976, the British journalist Geoffrey Bocca could describe the scene as a "crushing concatenation of faceless, shabby, shoving, rude and, above all, indifferent, uninterested people...
...didn't work, and slang has gone garbonzo ever since. In the U.S. alone, thousands of vivid new words -- from the rude to the crude to the lewd -- have slipped into (some would say assaulted) the language. Most of the new vocabulary has come fromdiscrete groups for whom a special jargon affords status and protection: students (barf), blacks (jazz, originally to copulate), the military (blow it out your barracks bag), alcohol user (crocked), drug user (crackhead) and the underworld (grifter...
...members of Green Day ever tour Singapore, they'll all probably end up as candidates for caning. The punk trio's new CD, Dookie, is immature ("I'm not growing up, I'm/ just burning out," run the lyrics to Burnout, the opening song), rude ("I don't know you/ But, I think I hate you," the band sings on Chump) and violently threatening in a he-was-such-a-nice-boy-before- he-shot-the-senior-class kind of way (Having a Blast goes, "I'm taking all you down with me/ Explosives duct taped to my spine...
With a 4-0 record and heaps of confidence, the team then plunged into the regular portion of the season, only to get a rude awakening. First, Dartmouth bruised any Crimson delusions of infallibility by tying the team, 2-2. Then St. Lawrence, North eastern and Princeton utterly destroyed any such pretensions, beating Harvard in successive games...
...best, Harvard has always stood for a decent and enlightened example of leadership in our nation. The Harvard Club's dispute with Local 6 is a rude contradiction to that tradition...