Word: rude
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...They want to have the best of all worlds--the excitement and fashion of being hip and radical plus the security of knowing that they have success assured if they don't do anything too serious. They will not let themselves take their politics seriously, and so they become rude and closed-minded...
...that still leaves the pneumatic drills, which provide a rude awakening at 7:15 a.m. Solutions to the pulsating vibrations ranged from clogging the pistons with molasses to picking off the operators with B-B guns...
...forcing them to sit through another act of the sleepfest going on inside. One man asks those emerging from the balcony to ease his financial guilt and take his six seats in row five. He finds no takers, because everyone knows that snoring within earshot of the performers is rude...
Temporary Control. The censorship so far has been light. Journalists no longer write direct attacks against the Russians, no longer refer to Russian soldiers as "occupying troops," but their stories are anything but friendly. Rude Pravo reported with oblique subtlety that any agreements Dubček made in Moscow had been dictated by "unimaginably abnormal circumstances," conducted a quick public-opinion poll that showed that Dubček and his reforms had overwhelming popular support...
...this frustrating atmosphere, some Russian soldiers were getting trigger-happy and tough. Retaliating against lone snipers who took potshots at them during the night, they sent up flares and raked whole neighborhoods with small-arms fire. After they spotted some armed men on the roof of the Rude Pravo newspaper office. Soviet machine gunners opened fire, riddling the building's facade and shattering windows; their targets turned out to be Russian troops. The soldiers began firing without warning at anyone seen in the streets after the 10 p.m. curfew. In Prague, they killed at least three people and wounded...