Word: rude
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...happened," he said, "has inflicted a deep, bitter and lasting wound on me." Essentially his defense was that he had been grossly deceived by Profumo-an "almost unbelievable" culprit-and badly let down by his subordinates, who failed to keep him informed. From the back benches came a rude gibe of "Nobody ever tells me nuffin...
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...dozen great books? I strongly doubt it. When they learn that Johnny can neither read nor write, do they ever stop to listen to the sound of their own speech or read the letters which they themselves have written?" Thanks to E.P.E., McCord makes an alumni magazine sound rude like an alumni magazine sometimes should...
...real lives. Without these in-between times, we might undisturbed continue that remote and rotating life with which this, the Academy, is blessed. But now, in the brief gasp between the long sigh of the school year and the heady inhalation of the summer, we are shocked with the rude fact of the world about us: moving books and bricks is brutal labor; traveling is vouchsafed us or forbidden; the world beckons with one hand and slaps our cheek with the other. Tremble not: the surreal veil of summer job, summer school, and summer love will soon fall around...
Announcing their downfall, the party mouthpiece, Rude Pravo, deliberately gave no reasons for the ousters, since a full explanation could set off a chain reaction of destalinization that might well cost dour, lackluster Novotny his job. Bacilek was top cop back in 1952 when Rudolf Slansky and ten other Red leaders were hanged in the bloodiest of Stalin's satellite show trials; Köhler also played a key role in preparing the purge. And Czechoslovaks with good memories would recall the day eleven years ago when Security Boss Bacilek publicly and effusively thanked all those who had produced...