Word: epithets
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Most European parents approve their sons' taking part in ratonnades?the hunting down of "rats," a French epithet for Moslems. Explained a father: "Our sons are all we have left to make us respected here. They are our only means of resistance." A Moslem says: "For each Moslem killed, we will kill a European." A European answers: "Since we are an eight-to-one minority in Algeria, eight Moslems will die for every...
Because Mr. Angus Wilson is, among many other things, an acute chronicler of the Welfare State, he has incurred the unfortunate label of "traditional novelist"--the nastiest epithet in the current critical lexicon. Mr. Wilson's novels are by this means arbitrarily damned to comparisons with the matronly, jovial and encyclopaedic shades (respectively) of George Eliot, Charles Dickens and John Galsworthy...
...group that waited in vain for Rexroth was a strange combination of disgruntled newsmen, baggage porters, little boys waiting for their mothers, and a few scattered students who vaguely fulfilled the epithet of beatnik...
...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...