Word: insult
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Ecuadorians demanded how come, the French Foreign Office firmly explained that there was no intention to insult Ecuador, but there could only be one Grand-Croix given per country. If one country got four, the others with only one might feel slighted...
...pray tell, should an excellent publication take such pains to insult 26 million people by crowning Mr. Johnson? I supported Mr. Goldwater at the cost of a few friends, which I considered negligible, but now to have lost TIME as a friend also is more than I can take...
...father died seven months before that date. His mother, destitute, left her baby with one of his uncles and went back to England. At the age of six, Swift was sent away to school. He felt he had been treated like dirt, and to compensate the insult he indulged in delusions of grandeur. One day he spent his last penny to buy an old horse from the knacker, then jumped on its back to ride "high and mighty through Kilkenny." At that instant, the horse fell dead...
...language of personal insult flourishes. A zilch is a total loss, and so is a wimp, dimp, dipley nerdly, lizard, gink, barf, scuzz, skag, Jane, lunchbucket, or anyone whose mind is in the soil bank. At the University of North Carolina, last year's fink is this year's squid, cull, troll or nerd. The perennial rat fink is R.F. in Southern California and mouse fink or straight arrow (a combination pill and moral paragon) in the Harvard Yard. But though a tool in Florida is a dullard, a tool in the academic machinery of M.I.T. is merely...
That ended Brown's chances, but the Bruins had one final insult coming. The rules say you can either punt or kick off from your own 20 after a safety; Brown chose to have Randall punt and Wally Grant gathered in the 60-yard boot...