Word: uncouth
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...wrote to Lord Charles Howard, his commander in chief, "but ere it be long so to handle the matere with the Duke of Sidonia as he shal wish himselfe at St Mary Port among his orenge trees." Ere long indeed the desperate duke was driven into "the boisterous and uncouth Northren seas," where many of his "battered and crazed ships" were wrecked. "Insomuch that of 134 ships there returned home 53 onely small and great...
...Your article about TV critic Jack O'Brian [Nov. 20] was a perfect description of him. It reminded me of the time in 1956 when 1 worked at a gambling casino, in Nassau, Bahamas, where he was a guest. He was so uncouth and ill-mannered I had all I could do to restrain myself from doing him bodily injury...
That was only a shield to keep the name Barbara Streisand from getting bruised by uncouth hands. She had no desire to drop her own name-"because I wanted all the people I knew when I was younger to know it was me when I became a star." She hated her first name, though, and took an a out of it to shape it up. Today she likes to tell interviewers: "I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure you spell my name wrong...
...system is designed "mostly to insure privacy," Deborah Lucas '65, president of Briggs, said last night. Neither curious dorm-mates, nor uncouth dates will be able to scan the sign-out book any longer, she explained...
...occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, Who would keep abreast of Truth...