Word: insulters
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...course, is supposed to go into a home and insult the homemaker; on the other hand, a more truthful statement was never made...
There was some truth to the accusation, but the Chancellor had to ignore the personal insult since his chief concern at the moment was to preserve the voting balance of his regime in the Bundestag. Strauss's own C.S.U. had 50 seats, and might withdraw its support if Bavaria's favorite son was fired. For two days, Adenauer delayed a decision while his agents buttonholed the C.S.U. Bundestag members to see how many were willing to follow Strauss out of the coalition. To der Alte's glee, word came back that, in fact, most would abandon...
...Pennsylvania's Representative William Scranton. 45, who was elected Governor over Philadelphia's former Mayor Richardson Dilworth by 470,000 votes. Scranton (TIME cover. Oct. 19), who matched Dilworth insult for insult in one of the most savage campaigns in recent U.S. history, cut deeply into the Democratic fortress of Philadelphia, won ordinarily Democratic Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) by 52,000 votes. With a Republican legislature to help him, plus patronage powers that will give him control of 50,000 state jobs, Scranton awoke on the morning after Election Day as a Republican really to be reckoned with...
...Governor of Pennsylvania almost from the start, and last week Democrat Richardson Dilworth told a Philadelphia audience why. "The five or six issues we have have become deadly dull," he said. "Newspaper readers want something spicy. As a result, for the want of something better to do, we insult each other." He promptly demonstrated how this is done. Cried he of Republican William Scranton: "I would like to separate him from his skinny behind . . . Do you want a man for Governor who spent his time in the State Department helping the cleaning woman?" Scranton's standard answer...
...N.F.L. touchdown record set 19 years ago by the Chicago Bears' Sid Luckman. Then, with the game on ice 49-34 late in the fourth quarter, Tittle passed up a chance to try for a record-breaking eighth touchdown instead chose to run out the clock: "Why add insult to injury? We've got to play these guys again, and in their own park next time." To Redskin Coach Bill McPeak the insult was already severe enough: "The way that old man cranked his arm-I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen...