Word: rude
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...Minister Bandaranaike had a private chat with his Education Minister, and the next morning Dahanayake took the only way out: he baldly denied that the incident had taken place. "There is no truth," he said, "in reports that I refused to see the U.S. Ambassador." Ceylonese, who know a rude minister from an earnest ambassador, were beginning to see some good in Mr. Gluck...
...have never addressed my wife disrespectfully, as other husbands may still be doing. I have never used rude interjections, but only the most polite of honorifics. I have been beaten by her, but she has never been beaten...
After six months of chaos spent trying to elect a President, Haiti had found a leader with obvious popular support. The process of selection was rude: when the campaigning reached the shooting stage, other candidates backed out and pushed Fignole into office. He took hold vigorously, appointed a strong Cabinet, named a new army chief, produced pay for troops and other government employees who had gone wageless for a month. Banks, factories, docks, cable offices, radio stations reopened; peasant women hurried to the capital toting baskets of fruit and vegetables...
...remedy this situation, Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart introduced a bill to require the beneficial (i.e., actual) stockholders to be identified before voting in any U.S. proxy fight. But if Senator Capehart thought he was doing the SEC a favor, he got a rude surprise. Last week, at the Senate Banking subcommittee hearings on the use of foreign banks in U.S. proxy fights, SEChairman Armstrong flatly opposed the measure. Present SEC laws permit stock owners of record, such as banks or brokers, to vote stock in proxy battles, and they require disclosure of beneficial ownership only by those...
...Churchill was "peripheral-minded" and wanted to send raiding parties at Europe's defensive shores "like jackals worrying a lion." Snorted Morison: "From most of [Churchill's] favorite targets you could not go anywhere!" Of the successful Normandy invasion in 1944: "But for the insistent,, unremitting, often rude and tactless pressure by Roosevelt, Marshall, Eisenhower and others to cross the Channel in force . . . and surge on to the heart of Hitler...