Word: rudest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correspondent, the Chicago Daily News's Leland Stowe served with the armies of seven nations, traveled in 44 countries. The worst behaved troops he saw anywhere, he declares, were U.S. troops-the rawest, rudest, most irresponsible, most scornful of the rights and ideas of others...
From Laborites came a furious outcry against Churchill. "He is the rudest man in the House!" "Why don't you go home?" "Get out!" "Don't behave like a schoolboy!" Raging, Winston Churchill leaned forward, looked straight at Ernie Bevin, and stuck out his tongue...
...many people acknowledge as the chief interest of their lives." Johnson groups flourish as far afield as South Africa. Australia; an American Johnson News Letter appears several times a year; more than 100 books have been published in England and the U.S. alone about the 18th Century's rudest man of learning and letters...
...R.A.F. subordinates usually esteem his quality of directness. "Oh, we love him," one of them said recently; "he's so bloody inhuman." In the first bomber unit which he commanded, between World Wars I & II, he was reputed to be the rudest man in the R.A.F. He was also an effective commander: he developed the "pacification by bombing" which kept unruly Indian border tribes more or less under control. When soft-hearted folk protested, Harris' friends explained that he always gave a village a full day's warning before his bombers destroyed...
...rudest blunders are not committed by the governments of the United States and Russia, the chances for their future cooperation are greater, and those for their armed conflict are smaller than between either of them and any other nation. The reasons for such a statement are much more basic than those for many prognostications on post-war alliances...