Word: insultate
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...square-jawed, clear-eyed Texan named Allyn Conwell. An oil company executive based in Oman, Conwell was returning from a vacation in the U.S. Showing more aplomb in captivity than Cool Hand Luke, he calmly beseeched his captors and the U.S. alike to "put aside fear, anger and insult" and "let us go home...
...temperance movement has even reached that most bibulous of regions, Georgia, where no meal is complete without wine. A group of foreign journalists in Tbilisi was recently toasted with fruit juice, to the disgust of a local official who declared the ban "an insult to the tradition of Georgian hospitality." The new rules appear to be having some effect. With police now on the lookout for drunks, plumbers and carpenters seem less ready to insist on vodka as payment "under the table," which is where they often ended up by midday. "Now they're sober all day," says one Muscovite...
This is not to insult people at large or to suggest that Harvard or the world is a bad place. But sometimes I want to know why people try to scare each other so much. What are we all scared of? What are we trying...
...thrifts open, he managed to bring the blood pressure of depositors down a few points. Even so, the $1,000 limit sparked bitter complaints from small companies that needed to meet payrolls and from customers who need money for large purchases. A few thrifts affronted consumers with the final insult by offering to lend them money instead, at rates of about...
...solid a moral basis as our own troops in that conflict, their position was comparable to that of the American soldiers who fought the Vietnam War. Both groups, he says, were forced by the draft or by duty to fight "aggressive, immoral ways." This comparison is an insult to history and to the soldiers who fought in Indochina. To the soldiers of the time, North Vietnamese Communists were totalitarian aggressors who had to be stopped, just as the Nazis were. Whether they were justified in this view is a question of history. The Vietnam War was misguided, wasteful in some...