Word: uncouth
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...acting too much like a chip off the late Great Profile, slapped a $55,-750 breach-of-contract suit on him for acting up while making a string of movies in England. The charges, similar to those made against Junior last August by a Connecticut summer theater: uncouth public squabbles with his wife Cara, insults to other actors, all-round misbehavior...
...lack left the Egyptologists on dignified tenterhooks. Last summer the missing inscription was found on a stone built into a later structure. The scholars now know that the inscription is just what Egyptian schoolboys would be likely to copy. It tells how their Pharaoh Kamose defeated the uncouth Hyksos...
...impoverished financially, but his were the riches of the influence of a Spartan but cultured mother and a cherished heritage from his father, a Confederate cavalry officer. Your statement that he "roared around town yelling 'Hiya, boy' " is simply not true. He was not uncouth, as suggested, but very much a gentlemanly man. E. H. CRUMP JR. Memphis...
Neither the Zwicker nor the Hendrickson charges focused on the real issue; they were merely instances of the Senator's obscene and uncouth manner. The issue--in the five groups of charges there seemed to be but one--came up under Category Three, which stated that McCarthy "invited and urged federal employees to furnish him with information to aid in his investigations even if they would be violating the law, Presidential orders and their oaths of office...
...welcome was a gay and happy greeting . . . The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh may have found our welcome tiring but not tiresome, as you pointedly suggest. Doubtless, there were far too many official functions and politicians and too much heat, but we are not quite the unmannered, uncouth colonials your article implies . . . Your presidential parades and important civic affairs are not conducted with all that much of decorum and savoir faire, so why be superior about the undignified extroverts down thisa...