Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bertrand Russell insisted on living in the best of all possible worlds and responded to imperfection as if it were a personal insult to his intelligence. That stubbornness made him the pain in the neck par excellence of modern times. Or perhaps, as Tait speculates, it made him a sort of saint - "God's gad fly, sent to challenge the smugness of the churches with a righteousness greater than their...
Harvard offers Muhammad Ali the Norton Lectureship in Poetry, but Ali turns it down. "It's an insult!" he says. "Next they're gonna gimme a Wepner Lectureship...
...Colony. Such is the prickly mood in Ottawa that the government spied insult where none, clearly, was intended. Responding to questions in Parliament, Trudeau said that he was "surprised that an experienced diplomat like Mr. Porter would not find other channels for expressing [his] views." After Trudeau brought down the House by declaring "we are not a colony of the U.S.," New Democratic Party Leader Ed Broadbent proposed that the Prime Minister advise Washington that Porter's "kind of behavior is totally unacceptable to Canada...
...Terriers later added injury to insult by crushing the Crimson 7-3 in the ECAC finals and 10-5 in the NCAA consolation match. That definitely soured the relationship...
When Camacho was released from the prison last Sunday, he declared that he would take his fight for amnesty of all political prisoners to the streets. He called the king's pardon an insult, because, he said, it left 90 per cent of the country's political prisoners behind bars...