Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final insult was France's refusal to send official representation to the opening of a display of Paris city planning at Jerusalem's new $2,500,000 municipal theater. Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek will preside, and the Quai d'Orsay felt that sending a delegation would compromise the French position that Jerusalem is an international city...
...That statement was an insult. That statement wasn't even well-written." Robinson added, terming it "a bad-faith, half-witted explanation...
...Gallo had been counted among the walking dead ever since he also aroused the anger of the biggest boss of them all, aging Carlo Gambino. Told to stop muscling into Gambino's operations, including the lucrative narcotics traffic in East Harlem, the cocky Gallo hurled the ultimate Mafia insult at Gambino: he spat...
...Harrison's criticisms weren't fair. They were meant to humiliate you personally. He would refer to people on the team as "dummy" or "stupid" and insult their basic intelligence," he said...
...that it is a sad state of affairs when one country allows so slight an incident as the defection of a diplomat to another country to surpass in importance forthcoming negotiations with that country over consequential issues. Perhaps the Chinese side (again) saw the Liao incident as an undeserved insult which indicated continued U.S. unwillingness to negotiate seriously--to them, the "current anti-China atmosphere" (in the U.S. government) made it "obviously most unsuitable" to hold talks. The Chinese implied that once this "atmosphere" has dissipated, they would be willing to negotiate; but they must first know that...