Word: insultable
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...turns a shave-headed boot into a dedicated fighting man whose faith is in his rifle and whose religion is his corps. And it is nourished by the legendary heroes of the Marines' past: Commandant William Ward Burrows, who in 1800 ordered one Marine shavetail to redress an insult from a naval officer with his pistol; Brigadier General (now Congressman) James P. S. Devereux, the defender of Wake Island; General Thomas Holcomb, the father of the modern corps. The battle cry of a leathery Marine sergeant in World War I ("Come on, you sons of bitches. Do you want...
...cringing acceptance of the Kennan insult is outrageous. Since 1947 I have had a growing conviction that our State Department would sacrifice America before they would deviate from diplomatic protocol. How many lessons does our State Department need in order to recognize the fact that in dealing with the Soviets, Das Kapital is their bible and their book of protocol? It is foolish to use diplomatic niceties on a regime which recognizes none of the common usages of civilized society...
...government could retain its command of Parliament only with the support of the crypto-Communists. U.S. Ambassador John E. Peurifoy let it be known at a cocktail party that he thought it was time for new elections. Taking the hint, King Paul lashed out at "bad Greeks who insult the U.S. instead of thanking her." Without the support of the army, the palace, or the embassy...
...gunboat was gone by the time a British frigate and destroyer arrived on the scene. To add insult to injury, Chinese Communist shore batteries on a near by island opened fire on Her Majesty's vessels. The best they could do was return the fire, for five minutes...
...Jacob Epstein, one of the greatest living sculptors, is a bullet of a man with an independent eye and a longstanding reputation as one of the bad boys of art. "The man in the street is a fool," he once declared. And the public has usually returned the insult; shocked art lovers once set on Epstein's early Rima, a lumpish, bas-relief nude, and painted it green. But in recent years, both Sculptor Epstein and his critics have mellowed a bit. Last week, after a look at a Tate Gallery show spanning his life's work, London...