Word: uncouthness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last month aired two (one for each party) closed-circuit "orientation broadcasts" to 167 affiliate stations, showing how TV plans to cover the conventions. Top commentators urged delegates to be "natural and sincere," warned that the relentless camera catches not only the impassioned oratory but private mutterings and uncouth mannerisms as well...
...portrait commissions kept dwindling as he labored for months over each painting. His heavy brushstroke and thick overpainting, plus his untidy habit of cleaning brushes on his own clothing, struck his townsmen as uncouth. At 52, Rembrandt was forced to put his house and goods up for auction...
...voice may be loud above the crowd and my words just a bit uncouth...
...right of any individual to be an expressionist, distortionalist or eggbeater-ist-to trickle, sling or spray paint. If these people find happiness, well and good. There may be a revolution in the art world, but there are others who rebel against being cultured, and wish to remain uncouth and unartistic...
...literal description from the uncouth men the murderers must have been. The next line is a piece of cruel humour that must have struck terror into the young boy's heart as he realized his fate...