Word: insult
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Hull's Warning. Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.−Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...here, I also smell the first spoor of real life; and the fact that two black policemen and one black councilman work across the street in the town headquarters makes for further fine tuning. (I recall, for instance, that "nigger" in many Anglo-Southern mouths is not a racial insult, but a dialect noun, one used for at least four centuries...
...attend only as a member of a papal commission. The bishops of impoverished Guatemala appointed the head of the Helena Rubinstein branch as one of the non-episcopal delegates, which led Mexico's respected journal Proceso to fume, "Without any need of cosmetics, Christians everywhere blush at this insult." Dissidents who were not included in the meeting are encamped at Puebla for what amounts to a countermeeting, which they call CELAM 2½. The press corps and international observers number more than...
...Administration decided to just take the heat. When a group of U.S. Jewish leaders asked to see Carter, they were steered instead to Vance, which the spokesmen interpreted as a calculated insult. The State Department prepared a summary of the Administration's view of the achievements of the negotiations and the hurdles remaining; its aim, said a White House aide, was simply to "explain the facts," which include the U.S. insistence that Sadat's demands were not new, as the Israelis claim, but have been under discussion since early November...
...series of disruptive political trends has added insult to the economic injuries. Quebec's separatist provincial government continues to gain support among the people of Quebec for a renegotiation of the federal system. On the federal electoral stage, the country has begun polarizing along linguistic lines...