Word: uncouthness
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...diplomat appraised Lie as "a man with guts; no political or other culture; not the ideal man; but the best available, since it finally had to be a European." Old-style diplomats found him uncouth but impressive, "a rough diamond." The difference between Lie and smooth, aristocratic Sir Eric Drummond, first Secretary General of the League of Nations, might mark the difference between UNO and the League...
...against Japan. Vasilevsky, now Deputy Commissar of Defense, may soon replace Stalin as Defense Commissar. General Alexei 1. Antonov, 44, who succeeded Vasilevsky as Chief of Staff, reviewed the troops in Red Square. Antonov's next job is to improve the discipline and morale of the victorious but uncouth Red Army...
...without any real perception of the why & wherefore. There is a case for the Partisans of this world, in Yugoslavia and elsewhere, even though they are grim, smelly folk who eat with their knives. All the revolutionaries I know of in history and in Europe today fit this uncouth pattern-except the Fascists. And certainly Europe is having a revolution...
...incorrigible abilities as an enchantress, however inappropriate to the role, were practically all that made the play shine. Moreover, Miss Davis is not old enough, as Miss Barrymore was, to keep every hint of boy-meets-girl out of the teacher's moving relationship with the uncouth young miner who is her star pupil. Newcomer John Dall, as the miner, cares a lot for his role, but he is too urban and smooth to convey much power through it, once he gets the coal dust off his face. Another newcomer, Joan Lorring, as a hysterical little cockney slut...
...when we made our way back to the tents, stumbling and trying to avoid the foxholes in the dark, there was a fierce resentment burning like acetylene in each of us. . . . It was as though we'd been taken into a millionaire's home, treated like uncouth fools to whom a debt was unfortunately owed, then sent back, dazed by the splendorous kindliness of the mighty, to our six-by-three lives...