Word: insultate
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From an offensive standpoint, the second half was about as exciting as a rerun of MASH. Princeton senior Samantha Sacks added a meaningless goal in the middle of a cornerkick melee. But Harvard didn't pour any more salt on the Tiger's wounds and left the final insult...
...vouchers breaks down quickly over just how the vouchers should work. And among blacks, promoting vouchers, as Republicans often do, as a weapon against the obstructionism of the teachers unions doesn't always work. In many urban school systems, blacks make up a sizable part of the teaching force. Insult teachers, and you insult black voters, their families and neighbors...
...Jiang's China is currently the fastest growing economy in the world. [Economist, August 17th, 1996.] One result of this economic prowess is a dramatic increase in the living standard for one-fifth of the world's population. While the government's actions at Tiananmen Square in June 1989 insult our American sense of human rights, our definition of those rights is not the only one. An economic framing of the term places greater importance upon the right to a full stomach, a clothed body and a warm bed than the right to political expression. China is making tremendous strides...
...human capacity for insult, denigration and blasphemy seems utterly boundless. University of Tennessee research associate professor Jonathan E. Lighter demonstrated this in 1994 with the first volume of his Historical Dictionary of American Slang (A through G). Volume II (Random House; 736 pages; $65)--beginning with H, a euphemism for hell, and ending 10,000 definitions later at the letter O with Ozzie, an Australian--once again reflects Americans' ingenious talent for verbal invention as well as Lighter's indefatigable scholarship...
...population. And ingratitude as well. Al Fayed has invested almost $500 million in Harrods since he bought it in 1984, and he has given generously to British charities. "You don't want to work hard for 40 years and have a bunch of crooks and bastards and gun runners insult you," he recently told the New York Times. "They say, 'You own Harrods, you bloody Egyptian coming from Africa. How can you dare buy Harrods?'" Al Fayed got a measure of revenge against the Conservative Party, which he particularly blames for his rejection, when he helped bring down John Major...