Word: epithet
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Oxman calls the Grad ICC "obdurate," and that seems a mild epithet. He sees no chance for the enactment of his proposal to liberalize Bicker unless there is a radical change in the nature of Princeton's alumni. And there does seem to be a change coming somewhere on the horizon...
...public and in private, relations between the Soviet Union and Red China grow chillier and chillier. In attacking the U.N., the Red Chinese now apply to it the worst epithet in their lexicon...
...superior view of New York-or even of Chicago, St. Louis or San Francisco-Peoria was so long the butt of jokes because it seemed to embody that gibing epithet-provincial. The word was both an accusation and an insult, for everyone with a dictionary knew that it means "narrow, limited, insular, unsophisticated" and denotes "exclusive or overwhelming devotion to one's province." The description hardly fits modern Peoria-nor does it apply to the vast areas of the U.S. that once fell under its indictment. The cities and towns of America still maintain the pride of place that...
...words of ghetto-poet Johnnie Scott: "A man called Fear has inherited a half-acre, and is angry." Eldridge Cleaver, in a letter written from Folsom Prison shortly after the outbreak, sums it up: "Watts was a place of shame. We used to use Watts as an epithet in much the same way as city boys used "country" as a term of derision...But now, blacks are seen in Folsom saying "I'm from Watts, Baby! ...I lived there for a time, and I'm proud of it, the tired lamentations or Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, and The Preacher notwithstanding...
...epithet not to be taken too seriously. Avis is now a wholly owned subsidiary of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. (TIME, Jan. 22, 1965), which gives it more monetary backing than Hertz has ever...