Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aside from Jimmy, no Carter received more attention than Amy, though she did not invariably bask in it. She lapsed into silences and pouts after too many microphones were thrust into her face and too many inquiries were made that would insult the intelligence of any normal eight-year-old. Did she like the convention? "Not much." Was she thrilled to be in the hall where her father would be nominated for the presidency? "Nope." At a pier party for delegates, she responded to questions about how she felt by saying: "I'm not going to tell...
...trouble handling crowds because they act just like them. When some protester calls a cop an s.o.b., the cop calls him the same thing right back and forgets about it. As Rocky Pomerance said, "There's an ease of communication between cops and New Yorkers, even when they insult each other, that's a lot different from anywhere else...
...broad popular masses in the West." He insisted that Italian Communism was committed to economic development in both the public and private sectors. Such heresies so infuriated a Soviet journalist watching the proceedings on closed-circuit TV that he turned to Nickel and tagged Berlinguer with the ultimate Communist insult. "A social democrat -the capitalists will be happy to have him," he said. "Right now he's riding high, but sooner or later we must make clear that we regard Berlinguer's position as false and dangerous...
...often does in the Old Testament), he tends to like his piety muscular. He goes so far as to prefer Esau to Jacob, referring to Jacob (as well as Adam) as "a weakling." What he interprets as Job's bland "resignation" to God he calls "an insult to man." Job, he remarks, "should have continued to protest...
...life-middle-class residents and businesses. Now, for the first time, there are indications that the suburbs are on the defensive. They have attracted so many companies, so many people, that they are beginning to suffer the indignities of traffic jams, smog, escalating taxes and land costs. The crowning insult, and the most discomfiting of all developments: the suburbs now have suburbs of their own. Even so, to compete at all, the old downtowns had to shape up, and they have...