Word: insult
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...pray tell, should an excellent publication take such pains to insult 26 million people by crowning Mr. Johnson? I supported Mr. Goldwater at the cost of a few friends, which I considered negligible, but now to have lost TIME as a friend also is more than I can take...
...language of personal insult flourishes. A zilch is a total loss, and so is a wimp, dimp, dipley nerdly, lizard, gink, barf, scuzz, skag, Jane, lunchbucket, or anyone whose mind is in the soil bank. At the University of North Carolina, last year's fink is this year's squid, cull, troll or nerd. The perennial rat fink is R.F. in Southern California and mouse fink or straight arrow (a combination pill and moral paragon) in the Harvard Yard. But though a tool in Florida is a dullard, a tool in the academic machinery of M.I.T. is merely...
That ended Brown's chances, but the Bruins had one final insult coming. The rules say you can either punt or kick off from your own 20 after a safety; Brown chose to have Randall punt and Wally Grant gathered in the 60-yard boot...
...groused, after Cardinal Shortstop Dick Groat lulled him off second with a joke, then zipped around, took a throw and tagged him out. Naughty, indeed, but it saved a run-and the Cardinals in the fourth game. Trailing 3-0 at the time, the Cards quickly added injury to insult on Ken Boyer's grand-slam homer, won 4-3, and evened the Series at two games apiece. "I feel terrible about the whole thing," grinned Groat...
Quick Turn. Beirut's bankers prosper partly because they understand the unique needs and foibles of people for whom banking is a fresh experience. Many lavish spenders tell hoteliers and shopkeepers to send their bills directly to their banks, consider it an insult to have to carry credit cards to prove that they are good risks. The beauteous wife of Kuwait Millionaire Bader Almulla scorns checks, prefers to scribble notes on her calling cards ("Give this person $5,000"), which her banker is pleased to honor...