Word: insultedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drew harsh reactions beyond the courtroom, since they fell far short of what prosecutors had asked for: life imprisonment for four of the defendants and jail terms of between five and ten years for three others. Heinz Galinski, a Jewish spokesman in West Berlin, described the sentences as "an insult to all victims of the National Socialist regime." Even West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told a group of Israelis who had formerly lived in West Germany that he found himself in "complete understanding" with the victims' relatives...
...that the full Socialist program?including nationalizations?will be carried out. "Many Frenchmen doubt Mitterrand's socialism and think that since he no longer needs the Communists, he'll behave as a moderate and govern at the center-left," says Raymond Aron. "I think these skeptics are wrong and insult the President." The President himself supported that view last week, vowing publicly to "fulfill all my promises...
...dregs of the literary population have risen as one worm to insult me," Edith stormed in a typical rhetorical outburst...
Still, Photo's ability to manage people runs much deeper than that. As House Committee chairman last spring, she ran a meeting at which three quarters of the House, hurt and angry about the House's No-Talent Show (which had turned into an insult barrage), showed up to discuss the problems of living at Winthrop House. A roommate calls it her "finest hour," but Photo puts the success of that meeting on the House residents themselves. "What other House would get 275 people out for a meeting about what's wrong with the House? I was proud...
...conducting a transcontinental affair on the side - that you are likely to wonder, "Does this guy realize how unlikable he is?" It is at this moment that Brooks' strategy has succeeded. He has made you more profoundly ill at ease than Don Rickles ever could. Insult comics merely try to focus hostility; Brooks is after something more insidious: the moral squirm...