Word: insult
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...suggestion is idiotic and, among other things, an insult to the free, peaceful, democratic elections of last November. The 1850s needed nothing less than a Civil War to settle the slavery and union argument, which was so utterly central and intractable it had to turn violent. The very meaning of American civilization was at issue. The blast in Oklahoma City, though horrific and indelible, may have been very much in the American grain, but it occurred entirely outside the civilization's pale, at the delusional margins...
...grass was lush and verdant enough, but it seemed even more so because for the previous 22 years, the field in Royals Stadium (now Kauffman Stadium) had been covered by that insult to both aesthetics and orthopedics, artificial turf. "We have nine different grasses at work here," George Toma, the Royals' ground-keeping consultant said last Wednesday, an hour before the first pitch of the season, in Kansas City. "Five bluegrass types-Princeton 104, Eclipse, Nassau, Glade and Suffolk-and four ryes-Derby, Gator, Regal and Top Hat. They act like a team. If one or two get sick...
...classic field experiment, subjects threw wet sponges at a carnival clown. The psychologists placed a rifle near the front of the booth for some of the players to see and removed it for others. The researchers also had the clown insult some of the sponge throwers. The insults had no discernible effect on the participants' behavior, but those exposed to the rifle threw more sponges. Similar studies have replicated the weapons effect worldwide. Psychology professor Ann Frodi found that Swedish high school students administered more and longer electric shocks to other students when a weapon was present. "Objects with clear...
...then, though, the decision was shifting out of his hands. In Washington the Administration had been wracked by tension: spats between Kissinger and Schlesinger, frustration over conflicting reports about just how bad the situation in Saigon was. Ford had suffered an unprecedented insult a few days earlier when two Congressmen walked out of a joint session at which he pleaded for unity. Late in the afternoon of April 28 (early morning of the 29th in Saigon), Kissinger's deputy Brent Scowcroft burst into a meeting of Ford with his energy and economic advisers, bearing a message about the rocket...
...Givenchy as well as Dior, Lacroix and other luxury houses, was late with an offer to extend his contract, and then it was only for two couture collections each year. "I told them that the future of my business is in ready-to-wear. I think it is an insult." Marc Audibet and John Galliano are among those rumored as replacements. Stronger rumors say that LVMH wants Givenchy back, but he says it is too late...