Word: ruffian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frost called Khrushchev "a kind of ruffian," but, said the poet, "He's our enemy, but he's a great man. He's not a coward. He's not afraid of us, and we're not afraid of him." - Harlem's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 53, was in Europe ostensibly to study equality of opportunity for Continental women. He had in tow a couple of shapely technical advisers: Conine Huff, a former Miss U.S.A. contestant (36-24-36) and a $5,014 receptionist in his office, and Mrs. Tamara J. Wall...
Derain's father, a baker, was prosperous enough to want his son to have the most respectable of careers, preferably engineering. But André was already painting, and his best friend was the young ruffian Maurice Vlaminck, whom Papa Derain would not let into the house. Then one day an older painter by the name of Henri Matisse saw some of André's work, spoke so glowingly of his talents and prospects that Derain's father finally relented. Maurice and Andre rented a shack on an island in the Seine, and their careers finally began...
...followed, in Germany and abroad, are now on the wane, but at week's end, with a vehemence rare in him. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer went on the air with a remedy for anti-Semites in action: "I say to all my German fellow citizens, if you catch a ruffian anywhere, execute the punishment on the spot and give him a sound thrashing...