Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Harvard took over Radcliffe's academic responsibilities back in World War II, it was a simple decision--it was the only financially pragmatic one. But in 1969, the situation was different. Radcliffe was foundering financially and--insult to injury--was calling for total merger, the logical conclusion to a relationship which had been growing increasingly closer and which had been presumed at the inception of Radcliffe. This time around, Harvard could not see that it had much to gain financially--despite the changes in values and career opportunities that women are now experiencing Harvard administrators are quick to point...
...Gross Insult to Justice
...retain our individual rights as well as law and order. Now that President Nixon has resigned rather than subject this country to the trauma of a trial in the Senate, to want to go even further and offer amnesty or "off the record" equivalents would be a gross insult to our system of justice...
Although the leading actress in this one-horse farce is Helen Hayes, a nice old lady who lives in a firehouse, the real star is a car called Herbie. He is a Volkswagen Beetle who, befitting a Disney Studios creation, does wheelstands when people insult him or transports them to trysting places as the mood takes...
...NIXON'S CONTRIBUTION TO DÉTENTE. Frankly, it bores me very much to hear Nixon say he ended the era of confrontation and started an era of détente. That's an insult to Eisenhower, who deserves much of the credit for the Austrian State Treaty of 1955, and to Kennedy, who brought about the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963. Besides, Nixon didn't even begin the present round of détente; Willy Brandt did with his Ostpolitik...