Word: uncouth
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...considered an unpresentable uncle of modern man, but he had the wit to make and use stone tools. Crude hand axes were found in the blow-out among the bones. Since many anthropologists define man as "the toolmaking mammal," Saldanha will have to be recognized as a genuine, if uncouth...
Rhymester David McCord is fascinated by what happened to the positive form of such common words as inept, inert, disheveled, uncouth and unkempt. For years, McCord, who is secretary of the Alumni Fund of Harvard University and a well-known writer of light verse, has waged a happy campaign for the restoration of what he calls the Lost Positive. For amusement he writes sprightly rhymes full of positives, like the one above (which he calls Gloss) published in the January Harper's Magazine...
...trouble was an unpopular government order extending Denmark's draft period from 12 to 18 months. Many young Danes resent and resist their tiny nation's undertaking to provide three divisions for NATO forces. Another cause was the widespread Danish belief that soldiering itself is an uncouth and unnecessary profession, ill-suited to a nation that has not waged war since 1864.* Item: last year a veteran sergeant major who offended his rookies by using "rude and indecent language" was beaten badly by ten of his men. From a court martial he got 30 days, the attackers...
Giant is about Texas and it has already had the commercial good luck to annoy a lot of Texans. Running as a serial in the Ladies' Home Journal, it began to make enemies with the very first installment. For the Texas seen in Giant is filled with rowdy, uncouth men & women whose vulgarity runs second only to the flash wealth that nurtures...
...Texas supreme court. A man injured in a jeep accident claimed double indemnity ($200 a month), allowed by his insurance policy if the accident involved a "pleasure car." The court turned him down. Said the majority, including two World War II veterans: "[The jeep] is a rugged, uncouth vehicle without beauty of line or body, with no suggestion of comfort and obviously intended for hard service rather than pleasure...