Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME displayed uncharacteristic gaucherie when it printed a gratuitous insult to Ronald Reagan: "... some Republicans question whether he has the intellectual capacity to serve as President." Who, might we inquire, has recently demonstrated more intellectual capacity? Nixon? Johnson? Ford...
...conclusion of the ten-minute demonstration, Cheryl Korot '76 told the crowd that the UN resolution is an insult to US Jews, Jews all over the world, and the state of Israel...
...Godfather), is at some pains to be cute while he is at his most irascible. His portrait of Willy is too selfconscious, too deliberately insinuating. But George Burns, rasping and lively-eyed, makes a fine Al. Burns, 79, has always been the foremost purveyor of the sideways insult that comes in low and inside before it hits the mark. He has added just for the occasion a diabolical ingenuousness, which can raise hackles and laughter in equal, generous measure...
...York to address the General Assembly. Mayor Abraham Beame, who had offered to give Sadat the key to the city, withdrew the invitation when he realized that many of New York's 2.4 million Jews might regard any welcome as bad taste-and worse politics. The insult was compounded by Governor Hugh Carey, who also declined to see Sadat. Then when he arrived at the U.N., he was greeted by cries of "Down with Sadat! Long live Palestine!" from Palestinian sympathizers on Dag Hammarskjold Plaza...
...will never understand why the American media are so interested in the number of my miscarriages. A private tragedy as the loss of a child should not be used as a sensation for the excitement of the readers. Doing so is an insult to me and to all women. But, since TIME seems so interested too, once and forever I must state that I never had three miscarriages. I never lost three children. I only lost one, which is more than enough to cry for the rest of a life. And that miscarriage inspired my book Letter to a Child...