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Word: insulters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insult to the electorate. It puts people in line to become either the candidate or the President who shouldn't be there. It wastes good people, takes them out of circulation for eight years and sometimes practically destroys them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Eugene McCARTHY: Clean Gene Is At It Again | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...credulousness of voters is perhaps best mirrored in their acceptance of the word `liberal' as an insult to Dukakis. "Conservativism is faddish, and people have begun to say liberalism is bad and it stuck," he says...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: An Insider Watches on the Sidelines | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...sounds corny to say it but most people really love SOM," said second-year student Thomas Amenta. "[The change] is an insult to our vision of management." Nationally, Yale's 12-year-old equivalent to business school is known as much for its experimental emphasis on behavior as its private business curriculum...

Author: By Samantha L. Heller, | Title: Curriculum Shift Stuns Yale; Students, Alumni Fight Change | 11/5/1988 | See Source »

Bentsen, a World War II veteran, said he tookit "as a personal insult to me" that theRepublicans were trying to paint Dukakis as weakon defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Duke Likens Bush Campaign to Watergate | 10/21/1988 | See Source »

...practice fields at UCLA or the University of California, Irvine, he has encountered Joyner-Kersee now and then. "A very pleasant girl," he says, "and a beautiful athlete." She recalls that at every encounter he would brush her with a dare or nudge her with an insult. "He was the one who challenged me to go over 7,000. 'Why not be the first?' he'd say. Or he'd go the other way: 'Nobody will ever jump 24 ft. in the heptathlon. Give me a break.' I knew what he was doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Regal Masters Of Olympic Versatility | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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