Word: rude
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...weeks before and had made a statement: the life of a U.S. diplomat in Soviet Russia is little better than existence was in Nazi Germany, where he had been briefly interned after Pearl Harbor. This line of talk, said a note from Moscow to the State Department, was "a rude violation of generally recognized norms of international...
...spending his insurance money on 1) a new house, 2) a new car, 3) a new lawsuit-against the newspaper Parisien Libéré, which called him "a common crook." As an added symptom of recovery, he stood for a while outside the butcher's shop making rude faces through the window at Maigret, at whom, strangely enough, he was very sore...
...vice-presidency-gave the convention a change of pace. She tramped to the speaker's stand splendidly corseted, and garbed in lacy black. She clasped her hands over her head and mitted the crowd. Then she cried-of its treatment of the other women speakers-"You were exceedingly rude!" Amid the startled applause she fogged in some fast opening lines...
...letters home fizzed with high spirits. Like many a tourist before & after, he found ample material for jokes in such things as French opera and royalty, nuns and pubs, Italian comedy and conversazione. Then, when he seemed to be becoming quite a man of the world, Walpole was rude to him. Gray packed his bag and went home to Cambridge, a gentleman scholar living on a modest inheritance...
...question. He works hard. "I'm tired," he remarked not long ago. "I've been on my imperial feet all day." And, in his imperial fashion, he has learned a great deal about running a restaurant. Recently, when he was told that a waiter captain had been rude on the telephone to an important habitue, Mike announced quietly, "If I ever find a really excellent captain, I'm going to breed the bahstid...