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...check the alarming growth of absenteeism among Czech factory hands, the newspaper Rude Pravo reported last week, the Czechoslovakian Red government has instituted a system of "camera control." Workers have been told to photograph fellow employees coming to work late or leaving early, and all "allegedly sick" co-workers who are found "in their gardens or working elsewhere." The pictures will be posted on factory bulletin boards...
Cardano usually won and people hated him. His expertness at cards and craps was not the only reason, for he readily admitted to being "cunning," "crafty," "sarcastic," "impertinent," "grudging," "envious," "treacherous," "miserable," "hateful," "lascivious," "disagreeable," "rude," "obscene," "lying," "obsequious," "irresolute," and "indecent." But he hotly denied being a bastard. It was at this point that people stopped believing...
Coming out of Tokyo's Labor Ministry, at the start of a five-week lecture tour in Japan, Eleanor Roosevelt got a rude reception on the street from a band of about 20 Japanese women (reportedly led by the American-born wife of a Japanese). Flaunting Communist banners, the women jeered and shouted, "Go home. We don't want another war." Japanese guards came to the rescue and cleared the way to her automobile...
...Rene's escapades form the main plot. They take her on a quick whirl through reform school, a marathon party with some furloughing G.I.s, a brush with genteel do-gooders, and a near marriage with a U.S. soldier named Hotspot (Hotty for short), which is interrupted by the rude appearance of the cops. But The Joyful Condemned is the sort of novel that lavishly scatters half a dozen subplots and a small army of minor characters. Novelist Tennant tosses in a raucous riot scene in the girls' reformatory, a wild chapter in which two young racketeers...
...have noticed this not just this spring, but in final and mid-term exams over the last few years. Just because they are administering an academic exercise, this does not mean they have to act as lord and master over students. But many of them do. They are rude; they treat us like so many unruly school children...