Word: epithets
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...personally acquainted with, I resent very much the statement made by Mr. Bleecker in which he calls the former a "pug." I do not doubt Mr. Bleecker's right to describe the Spanish pugilist as he sees fit but he certainly does not know Senor Uzcudun in using the epithet "pug." Mr. Paulino Uzcudun is a gentleman and a man of culture and refinement, as different in his manners from our common American fighters as night and day. The American public does not know the Spanish fighter. They are guided in their opinions by such types of individuals...
...Ratzinger, the chief architect of Pope John Paul II's traditionalist moral policy, has long been a bugaboo for liberal Catholics. But they had stopped worrying that the German might one day ascend to St. Peter's throne. His hard-line views and blunt approach had earned him the epithet of panzerkardinal and too many enemies. Well, their worrying may now resume. Sources in Rome tell TIME that Ratzinger has re-emerged as the top papal candidate within the Vatican hierarchy, joining other front runners such as Dionigi Tettamanzi of Milan and Claudio Hummes of S??o Paolo. "The Ratzinger...
...difficult. Always a provocateur, he had taken verbal swipes at virtually every Dutch minority. Three cases had been brought against him for slurs against Muslims and Jews; he was convicted of anti-Semitism in 1990, attacked Catholics in his spare time, and routinely referred to Muslims with an unpublishable epithet. Wilders, now under police protection, defends him. "Van Gogh was provocative, but in a democracy you fight words with words, not bullets," he says...
Throughout his 2004 campaign, George Bush sneered “Massachusetts” like it was a four-letter word. Not since the elder George Bush deployed the same thirteen-letter epithet against Michael Dukakis had a state been appropriated as an adjective to connote such out-of-touch, weak-kneed, secularist, elitist, tax-hiking Un-Americanism. Tragically, though maybe not surprisingly, it resonated on both occasions...
...Bush's epithet slinging was a flop in all three debates. Not because the nation has taken a lurch to the left--Kennedy remains the anachronistic embodiment of a welfare-state liberalism long discarded by the American public. No, it was more likely that the President had overdosed on invective during the long, long course of this election year and the public has become inured to it. Kerry helped that process along by his demeanor throughout (with the exception of his gratuitous mention of the Vice President's gay daughter). The Senator's dignity and consistency made Bush's attacks...