Word: insult
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Wladyslaw Gomulka can refuse to issue visas to the West German bishops-but if he does, Pope Paul VI, who in the 1920s filled a diplomatic post in Warsaw and who would greatly like to attend the ceremonies at Czestochowa himself, can hardly overlook the insult to his church. The Vatican last week could only wait, and hope that Gomulka would simmer down...
...aunt and uncle. Twice, Powell ignored fact-finding trials. Last week, forced to assume that the charge was true, Justice Wahl ordered Powell to pay Mrs. James $75,000 in compensatory and $500,000 in punitive damages. Summing up his opinion of Powell, Justice Wahl indignantly paraphrased a famous insult attributed to Virginia's 19th century Senator John Randolph: "He is a man of splendid abilities, but he shines and stinks like rotten mackerel by moonlight...
...South American tour on behalf of the State Department, St. Joe's won 42 out of 46 games, wound up No. 3 in the nation. Last week, after six games of the 1965-66 season, the Hawks were up to No. 2-and even that seemed like an insult, looking at the records of their rivals. U.C.L.A., picked by most experts to win its third straight N.C.A.A. championship, dropped two games in a row to Duke. Duke thereby jumped all the way from No. 6 to No. 1, despite a loss to unranked South Carolina. Michigan lost...
Tastefully garnished with green peas and celery, le grand visage stared out at the Japanese people from the cover of a new politico-nudie monthly magazine called Hoseki (Jewels). The outraged French ambassador, Francois Missoffe, complained to Japan's Foreign Office, calling the picture a "grave insult" to the honor of France and President Charles de Gaulle. Hoseki's managing editor Kozaburo Iga explained that his cover, titled "The Secret of Glory," was a "symbolic composite meant to congratulate the French President on his good health and a good healthy appetite." And the glorious girl? Well, said...
...then the champ got worried about the gate, and turned loud-mouth insult into patronizing praise. "The rabbit could be the one who nails me," Clay said a few weeks ago. That kind of statement should dissuade any fools who had considered laying a dollar or two on the challenger...