Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bordering on Insult...
Your gratuitous insult to 18th century British Surveyor John Collins in your story on the community split between Canada and the U.S. [Aug. 13] and, by inference, to the profession of surveying is clearly out of bounds...
...nation's black leaders were stunned by the departure from the Administration of its most prominent black member. Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind., called it a "forced resignation" that was "an insult to black people." To Congressman John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, what happened to Young was a "pointblank firing." Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, charged that Young had been made "a sacrificial lamb for circumstances beyond his control." Instead of being out of a job, said Hooks, Young "should have received a presidential medal" for pulling...
...other side, Prime Minister Bishop Abel Muzorewa called the Commonwealth proposal "an insult" to his "government of national unity." Former Prime Minister Ian Smith, now a Minister Without Portfolio in Muzorewa's government, dismissed the results of the Lusaka conference as "so much hot air" and suggested that Rhodesians "forget about new elections." In South Africa, which has close ties with Salisbury, Foreign Minister Roelof F. ("Pik") Botha declared that his government was "deeply disturbed." South Africa was reported to be considering military support for Muzorewa if he decides to reject the Commonwealth proposals...
...nation miffed by this breathtaking insult to its capital? No, because the larger truth is that self-admiring localism is as American as pumpkin pie. The U.S. got stitched together out of a sprawling fuss of self-contained colonies whose fierce attachment to their little domains provided one of the knottiest obstacles to union. Later, ferocious regionalism helped contrive the nation's definitive crisis, the Civil War. After poking around in every cranny of modern America, Journalist John Gunther concluded a generation ago that for all its dazzling communications the U.S. was "enormously provincial...