Word: rudest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show. It opened with his boast that Russia is first in the firmament, with its Lunik and its "mass-produced" intercontinental rockets, and his seven-year economic plan would make it first on earth. It closed with the cocky boss, an energetic 64, firing some of the roughest and rudest taunts that he has ever let fly at the West. In between, 86 Soviet delegates and 45 representatives of foreign Communist parties paid telling tribute to "the distinguished activity," "the tremendous organizing work," "the majestic firmness" of their leader, who beamed at the sycophant praise as broadly as ever Joseph...
...Guilty As Heck." When Verdict began last year, it was greeted with some of the rudest critical welcomes ever given a network show. THE VERDICT is DOUBTFUL, snidery headlined the New York Journal-American. "Mockery . . . phoniness . . , guilty as heck," snapped the New York Herald Tribune. Today Verdict easily outdraws its rivals on the most hotly contested hour of the day, has consistently batted among the top half dozen of all daytime shows...
Matisse: "The rudest man I've ever shot. He refused to cooperate. He browbeats his servants and treats his nurse dreadfully. But he's a sick man, and maybe that excuses...
Bela Bartok published only six string quartets, but as far as many a musician is concerned, they gave the intimate and delicate world of chamber music its rudest shock since Beethoven. With his First Quartet, composed in 1908 when he was 27, Bartok stalked into a field of harsh, hybrid harmonies and fierce rhythms that jolted Budapest listeners upright in their seats. In the Second (1917), Third (1927) and Fourth (1928), he cultivated the field; his harmonies became more astringent, the rhythms more incisive, the textures ever tighter. Listeners found much that was either impenetrable or unpalatable, but they also...