Word: rude
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...successes, he acknowledges a number of defeats. "I lost with Nikita Khrushchev, but there was so much hysteria attendant on his appearance that it was hopeless. My office was picketed, my children were threatened with reprisals...." He feels he also lost with V. Krishna Menon ("so disrespectful, so rude") and Adlai Stevenson ("he had been my political hero, and then, after the interview, well...
...Americans who get her in a tizzy. They were bad enough in Russia, what with their great piles of luggage-"nasty-looking Americans, very rude." But they also crop up in Florence, and when Nancy kindly points out the Duomo, they inquire: "Until what time do the stores remain open here?" In their "plastic garments," they occur in Ireland, where they say, "Pourdon me," and ask nuns to close a train window. Nor is England's most hallowed ground safe from the profane American. "Although they descend from people who could not succeed in Europe and furiously shook...
...Penn's rude disregard of his change in strategy seems to have convinced Wilson to stick to his usual zone defense against the Quakers this Friday. The varsity has been working on the fast break at practices this week which would further indicate that the zone is in the works for Penn...
There are two reasons for the students' unrest in Bulgaria. The principal reason, an it was in Helsinki, is most likely a rude realization that the basic aim of the Soviets' benevolence is proselytism...
Over the past 20 years, on his own people and on their neighbors, Charles de Gaulle has perfected his native talent for handing out rude surprises. Employing the lofty disdain that used to infuriate Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, De Gaulle succeeded in infuriating Kennedy, Macmillan and a host of others by vetoing Britain's admission to the Common Market...