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...serious practitioners of the art of insult, the British probably dismiss Haig's testy comment on Carrington as hardly in the same world class as the invective of Lloyd George, who said that Winston Churchill would "make a drum out of the skin of his own mother in order to sound his own praises"; of World War Fs Field Marshal Haig that he "was brilliant to the top of his army boots"; of Lord Derby that he was "like a cushion who always bore the impress of the last man who sat on him." Devastating ad libs and insults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: The Duplicitous and Innocent | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...third round via an opening round bye and a straight game victory over Brown's Daren Kleiner The other seeds had an equally easy time in advancing Top-ranked Alicia McConnell, the UPenn superstar, disposed of Williams's Barbara Reiffer in a lopsided win and added injury to insult by sending Reiffer to UHS with a bleeding wound above her left...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Intercollegiates Begin at Hemenway; Hosts Place Three in Final Sixteen | 3/6/1982 | See Source »

...that the Salvadoran government, contrary to its official declarations, had failed to conduct a "serious investigation" into the horrifying murders of four American missionaries. After publicly speaking out against additional U.S. military aid to EI Salvador, White was immediately relieved of his post by the Reagan Administration. To add insult to injury, after testifying candidly before a House subcommittee. White was "retired" from the Foreign Service at the request of an embarrassed Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig...

Author: By Benjamin B. Sherwood, | Title: Stranger Than Fiction | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...INSULT THE AMBASSADOR" is the latest weapon in President Reagan's foreign policy arsenal. When Nicaragua's new envoy arrived in Washington last week, he was greeted not with the usual diplomatic niceties but with a note scolding his government for "inviting alien influences and philosophies into the hemisphere. "Tragically, the hostile attitude adopted by Reagan and his advisors toward the Nicaraguan Sandinistas could easily push a country open to friendly relations with the United States into the Soviet camp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Time For Friendship | 2/25/1982 | See Source »

...commencement--a role he knew that Robinson was likely to win. With this in mind, he went with his friend and co-"Black", Steams, before the College Government. They claimed that Robinson was the principal promoter of the division in the class, that he had led the class to insult and harrass them, and that he had "expended in dissipation at Boston the money which had been allowed him by Government...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: The Great Rebellion of 1823 | 2/17/1982 | See Source »

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