Word: ruder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter what he did, said the aide, the President would do it "more" than anybody else. When he was angry, everyone in the White House knew it. When he was charming, the birds would plummet from the trees. When he was rude or boorish, hardly anyone could be ruder or more boorish. And so, in recent weeks, after Johnson decided to be remote and aloof, it is not surprising that he has been more remote and aloof than just about any other President since Calvin Coolidge...
Freeman's message was discreetly but unmistakably beamed at India, which has received the lion's share ($2.6 billion) of Food for Peace commodities, last year took 15% of the entire U.S. wheat crop-and still faces famine (see THE WORLD). Ghana had a ruder awakening. Two days after the State Department lodged a strong protest over a new virulently anti-American book by Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, the U.S. declined his government's request for $129 million worth of wheat, rice and dried milk. Faced with ever dwindling reserves and ever increasing demand...
...takes skill to cover floods. Also courage. Mel Ruder risked life and health and shared news with competing media to keep the public informed [May 14]. When I nominated him for the Pulitzer Prize, there was no elaborate scrapbook. His Hungry Horse News spoke for itself...
...Livingston won the international reporting prize for an economic analysis of the Eastern European satellite nations; the Wall Street Journal's Louis Kohlmeier received the national reporting award for being the first of many to account for President Johnson's personal fortune; Melvin Ruder, publisher-editor of the Hungry Horse News in Columbia Falls, Mont., won the local reporting award for covering raging floods in the Northwest...
...sense, things undoubtedly got warmer when both sides met behind the massive walls of a rarely used mansion in the Lenin Hills section of Moscow. Suslov and Teng exchanged toasts, but that was just routine. For under the pose of politeness, the Sino-Soviet quarrel was becoming ruder than ever. Without explanation, Peking suddenly withdrew its two entries from an international film festival about to open in Moscow. And just before the party leaders met, Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung exchanged a fresh round of insults over Red China's 25-point denunciation of Soviet policy. Although the Soviets...