Word: uncouthness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike Nikolai Yezhov, who is small, saturnine, mysterious and narrowly intelligent, new Commissar Beria is tall, heavyset, fond of speechmaking and public appearances. Not so uncouth as his predecessor, Laurentius Beria, despite a more polished exterior and pince-nez, can be just as bloodthirsty and relentless, has been a professional man hunter since his first assignment to the Cheka soon after the Bolshevik Revolution...
Unfortunately, Cinemactor Scott's long upper lip and narrow eyes tend to give him the look of an uncouth frontier bumpkin...
Burgess Meredith and Lillian Gish portray quite sympathetically the couple who do well in poverty without knowing it but ruin themselves when they join the moneyed interests. Russell Collins is excellent as the uncouth fellow who remains fanatically honest, no matter where he finds himself...
...necessary to go back to Galileo and Newton, and even to mention Aristotle. The great Greek philosopher, whose shadow dominated scholastic thought in Medieval Europe, declared that a continuous push had to be exerted on a body to keep it in motion. Galileo, who shocked cloistered thinkers by making uncouth experiments, concluded that this was not so-that if a moving body was not acted upon by any forces it would continue in uniform motion indefinitely. This was one of the laws formulated by Newton a generation later. When Newton formulated the principle that the force of gravity is inversely...
There is not so much noise from the Court as there used to be from the sidewalk on the other side when the boys would come rolling home late from whatever it was they had found to come rolling home late from. There used to be uncouth songs and shouts from them sometimes and I would wake up and mutter to myself. Now the only noise that bothers me is the sparrows under the caves and in the ivy near my window. The sparrows start their lively twittering with the first rays of the (to me) invisible...