Word: rudeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Norwegian citizen who lives in Spain and whose mother is from Uruguay, yesterday's match was a rude lesson in shuttle diplomacy. In his most recent outings, Vik had won the Ivy title and finished first...
...which, Chaleff says, came as a rude shock to Wee and Nicholson, who had been told to keep the whole matter quiet...
...complimentary about The M.P. 's Chart. The 83-page booklet is a collection of irreverent thumbnail descriptions of British politicians written by Manchester Evening News Correspondent Andrew Roth. In Roth's updated pocket guide, Andrew Faulds, a Labor M.P. and former actor, is dismissed as "tall, bearded, rude, sextrovert." Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher rates a more splendid oxymoron: "blonde, stainless-steel Dresden china." Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe is characterized as a "middlebrow, U.S.-style show-biz politician." Because almost a quarter of the 635 seats in the Commons changed during last year's two elections, Roth...
...March they were humble aspirants. By June, they were "the smooth, the rude and the fast, "cocky, arrogant and understandably confident...
...dust to investigate the lives of the dishwasher and the miner. When his peers went up to London to seek careers, he went to Spain as a correspondent and stayed to fight against Franco's troops. When many fellow leftists sang the praises of the Cominform, he was rude enough to point out that "the thing for which the Communists were working was not to postpone the Spanish revolution till a more suitable time, but to make sure it never happened...