Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more disgusting example of the same irrelevance, the Boston Globe, usually a member of the responsible press, last month splashed a gigantic photo across its front page of two mountain climbers dangling form their safety harnesses. To add insult to injury, the Globe copyrighted the picture, their way of letting us know they had something good, and they were proud...
...degree of insult apparently depends on the speaker, year and tone of voice. Inouye himself tells of the time he decided to introduce himself to House Speaker Sam Rayburn. Said Rayburn: "I know who you are. How many one-armed Japs do you think we have in the House...
Nixon agreed to meet with Ervin-but he pointedly excluded Baker, a reflection of the President's irritation with the Tennessean. The insult raised some eyebrows in Washington, but it did serve to establish once and for all Republican Baker's independence of the White House. The stage, at any rate, was set for Ervin to meet Nixon, after the President leaves the hospital. Ervin said, however, that the committee would not take the issue to court if the President were to refuse to honor a subpoena for the documents. Rather, he explained, the committee would "simply allow...
...fish, is worth the splurge--they say it's better than what Japan itself would give you. The teppanyaki or sukiyaki might be less strange to taste buds geared only to the Western way. The Korean dishes at Matsuya (1768a Mass Ave.) pull sore second, but that's no insult. The Tempura Hut (444 Portland St.) is for the Westerners at heart only...
...next year. The worth of such elections, however, was questioned by opposition politicians. "Plebiscites have a meaning to people who are free," said John Zigdis, a former minister who was jailed for 18 months in 1970 by the junta. "For a bound people, plebiscites are an insult. It is an attempt to make them collaborate in the forging of their chains...