Word: insultedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ULTIMATE INSULT to a historian is to accuse him of keeping his gaze focused entirely on the past, of having no concern for the present and future. The recently proposed revision of the sophomore tutorial program in History, if implemented, will be a giant step backwards into a past we have grown to regret--a past in which the history of an entire hemisphere was ignored in favor of our own, a past in which progressive universities were reviewed by Senate committees for daring to teach "dangerous" communist theory, and a past which still evokes shock among students schooled only...
...make amends for this gross insult I shall indeed participate in Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day (GLAD). --with a barrage of satire that will make your movement an even greater laughingstock than it is already," the letter continued...
...grew up. When readership moved to the suburbs and became more respectable, the Hearst papers couldn't follow. The domineering Hearst had made his sons unfit to lead by spoiling them, pulling them out of college, putting them in jobs over their heads, dashing their confidence, and sealing the insult in his will by contriving to strip them of command and money. So the company fell into the hands of a riskless, unimaginative class of managers who kept the family at bay, sold off half the papers from 1956-67, and turned a turbulent enterprise into a bottom-line operation...
...slender, dark-haired Welshman of considerable charm and directness, Bevan makes no secret of his ideological allegiances. "I'm proud to be called a Marxist," he says. "I do not consider being called a Communist an insult. Most people misunderstand Communism to most people Communism means Stalinism, and I reject that." He scornfully dismisses alarmed charges that he is some sort of subversive. I'm no infiltrator," he says. "We want to bring about an end to the mess that the capitalist system...
Olson, seeing the gift, stole the puck at center ice, drifted into the Laurie zone unhindered, and flipped in an insult-to-injury empty-netter at 18:56, for his second unassisted goal of the evening...