Word: insultedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Would they? Would Harvard students be taken in by a grinning hypocrite who came glad-handing his way down to Lowell House to pacify the natives whenever they got restless? Some of Brewster's stunts seem so obvious as to insult the intelligence even of Yale. A year ago, for example, Brewster spoke in front of the Yale Political Union, an apolitical student forum, and gained national publicity for his proposal that any Yale president's term be "reviewed" by the Yale Coproration every seven years. Whatever that meant--since no president has tenure and can be fired...
Hoping to insult the beleaguered Lowell secondary one last time, Dunster-Mather quarterback Keith Douds dropped back to pass, not realizing that the men in black and gold had yet to give up on a play all season. The linebackers blitzed; Douds released a wobbly pass, and somehow, defensive tackle Tim McGuire came up with the interception...
...nonsense legislator who calls the shots as she sees them. Her votes are cast only after absorbing hours of testimony and debate, as well as relying on the "practical experience" she acquired attending numerous community meetings and rallies as a New Jersey legislator. Probably the worst insult to hurl at Fenwick, other than to call her insensitive, would be to suggest that she is impractical. Freshman representative Barney Frank found that out when he accused her of being "theoretical." Fenwick, who had yielded the floor to the Massachusetts congressman during a House debate, reacted as though she had been accused...
...time to treat the Saudis like the friends they are. To continue to alienate and insult potentially friendly Arab nations by withholding AWACS planes [Oct. 5] is the height of stupidity...
True Confessions certainly will not bore anyone; nor will it insult the intelligence nor test the patience. A solid citizen of the movie world, it probably will age well and linger pleasantly in the mind. But with the raw material available to its creators, it could have done more, made more of a difference. Like its ultimately disappointed priest, True Confessions might have walked with the angels, but instead settled for life with us mortals...