Word: insult
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the 37 men in blue who patrol the majors accept insult as a matter of course-"I'd really get upset if they cheered," says the American League's Ed Runge-but few ever get used to it. "You try to rationalize," says the National League's Frank Secory, "but it's not easy. A guy in the stands shouts vilifications, and a psychiatrist says it's healthy for him-it's his safety valve. I know the guy doesn't mean me, personally...
...more than an unappreciative slap. But the Tolais have been nursing a grudge against the Sepiks for years-ever since the Sepiks began migrating from the New Guinea mainland two decades ago and rose in status as laborers around Rabaul. The pinched tribeswoman called her cousin to avenge her insult. A Sepik pitched in to help the pincher. Soon it was tribe against tribe. Tolais with white-painted faces armed themselves with baskets of stones and heavy sticks. The more imaginative Sepiks stuck hibiscus blooms in their hair for battle identification and began to flail away with iron bars, bicycle...
...limitations of the job. Jackson, now 42, was slowed up on the club circuit because, says a friend, using Hollywood's favorite word, he had "too much musical integrity." He was also inclined, when cocktail conversation annoyed him, to slam the keyboard and announce: "I can't insult that lovely tune." For a time he wavered between jazz and a classical career, but eventually made up his mind that he would rather "classicize jazz than jazzicize the classics." With him, it hardly makes any difference...
...Adding insult to injury, two-thirds of all the refugees from what Ulbricht fondly calls "the first worker and peasant state in German history" have been workers and peasants, and no fewer than 3,933 card-carrying members of Communist Ulbricht's elite Socialist Unity Party joined the departing hordes in 1960 alone...
...passed in 1907, declared that a man under the influence of alcohol must be considered to be "temporarily unsound of mind," thereby exonerating him of legal responsibility for any crimes committed when drunk. As a result, Japan's tipsy tipplers break store windows, kick dents in car fenders, insult passing women, even commit murder, without fear of lawsuit or punishment. (One jurist estimates that an average of ten murderers a year go scot-free because...