Word: insult
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...individual"--without wincing from the irony. People at McCormack headquarters describe a poll in which half the women at a supermarket who supported Kennedy in the race gave his first name as Jack. McCormack's staff seems to regard Kennedy's presence in the race more as an insult than a challenge. They point out that he has just reached the qualifying age and his experience is limited to a short uneventful term as assistant District Attorney in Boston...
...Indian staggered as if he had been struck. "It is too much!" he gasped. "It is the final piece of wheat and chaff! It is the insult direct! It is distinctly humiliating!" He turned, and groped his way into the building...
...point of view, but what about the man on the other side of the dial? Says Dr. Leo Goldberger, of N.Y.U.'s Research Center for Mental Health: "Long series of numbers, such as Army serial numbers, have come to connote loss of individual identity: one becomes-to add insult to injury-not only an insignificant cog in a great machine, but anonymous as well." Unpleasant things, he feels, are not only more difficult to memorize, but also more likely to be forgotten...
...Mets uniform. One had him winking at a washing machine; another showed him bunting a baseball and selling beer with Miss Rheingold. That was too much for Frick, who has rules against uniformed ballplayers, even old ones, endorsing alcoholic beverages. He called Stengel on the carpet, added insult to injury by reminding him: "If Casey is going to teach bunting, he should be a little more careful to keep his eye on the ball. It's behind him in the picture...
Murray Burns (Jason Robards Jr.) has quit his job as writer for a children's TV show called Chuckles the Chipmunk ("When Sandburg and Faulkner left, I left"). His one-room apartment is an insult to the Ladies' Home Journal. Amid the debris is Murray's prize possession, his twelve-year-old ward and nephew Nick. Winningly played by Barry Gordon, Nick is polysyllabic without being precious. Murray and Nick share a zany palship. On a crowded elevator Murray levels an admonitory finger at Nick and says loudly: "Max, there'll be no more of this...