Word: rude
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This fall, the Freedom Tree was removed after vandals attacked it with an ax. And city officials planning to plant a replacement tree one week from today received a rude surprise this week when they realized that the soil on the site intended for Freedom Tree II had been poisoned with calcium chloride...
...horror have not been rescinded. All killing is unclean. It has upon it a stain that technology cannot annul or override. Americans are not omnipotent, not all virtuous, they should remind themselves, they do not bestride the world. Vainglory is one of the sillier postures: it invariably precedes the rude awakening. It is the sort of whooping glee that, in Daffy Duck cartoons, goeth before the fall...
...night. They will expect appreciation and may be reluctant to relinquish their new power. Says Kathleen Weihl, 27, whose husband Gary will soon return to Georgia's Fort Stewart: "The guys are going to see that wives can get along without them, and it's going to be a rude awakening for some of them." Weihl, who endured a 14-month separation in the late '80s when Gary was sent to South Korea, also knows the pitfalls of overidolizing the absent loved one: "He may have sounded like Cary Grant in his letters," she says, "but back home...
...wasn't being rude or even expressing an opinion. He was simply stating the way things are and will always be. The subject was not ethics or what I think of as theology but the law of the land. I understood for the first time something I had often heard about Muslim culture: there is no division between mosque and state...
...There were some rude people in the studio but they were ejected...