Word: epithet
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...their convictions in terms of lower marks from professors with differing views--few seemed to bear any deep hatred for liberals. Quite a few of the rank-and-filers expressed interest in substituting some form of meaningful dialogue--a "cultural exchange program," as it were--for the current epithet-trading between the democratic Left and the democratic Right...
...contract in 1944, and Roosevelt reluctantly seized control of Ward. Avery refused to relinquish control to a U.S. marshal, and U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle hurriedly flew to Chicago to preside as two G.I.s carried Avery out of his office. As he was carried away, Avery flung the ultimate epithet at Biddle: "You New Dealer!" No Depression. When the war ended, Avery was convinced that the U.S. was headed for another depression, refused to open a single new store, began hoarding Montgomery Ward's assets until he had $327 million in cash and Government securities and $608 million...
...lifelong, convinced, prejudiced Republican, I cheer your epithet "Little Brother Bobby." Barbed, two-edged, it should induce every thinking Democrat to place an X on my side of the ballot...
Conservative Radical. Tied to Richard Nixon in the 1950 battle was an epithet that he has not quite managed to shake loose: "Tricky Dick." The Nixon that his friends know is not the stab-fingered persecutor with the five o'clock shadow that the cartoonists draw. To counter this impression, Nixon, who is essentially a reserved and private man, has made a "Dick and Pat" campaign that is quite unlike his unextroverted personal life. The Tricky Dick legend obscures Nixon's private scrupulousness, which leads him to turn over to charitable organizations every cent of the thousands...
Last week Carolina's diaries, compiled by Reporter Dantas into a 182-page book called Quarto de Despejo (Garbage Room), her epithet for the favela, broke over Brazil as its biggest literary bombshell. The first 10,000 copies were sold in a week-a record. Rolling off presses were 20,000 more, 'and a 50,000-copy* third edition is planned. Carolina appeared on TV. Earning $60 a day in royalties, she no longer hunts streets for paper...