Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sammy thinks he used to be a pretty brash fellow. "You know," he says. "I'd fluff [i.e., insult] somebody, even a good friend, and then think. 'Well, I'll make it up to him some day.' Then I had the accident, and I found I had friends...
...convention of the California Democratic Council, a group of 400 amateur clubs whose members are at odds with the party's state leaders, Butler urged all Democrats to "work with the regular organization." Up popped handsome Richard Graves,, defeated Democratic candidate for governor last year, who proceeded to insult Butler to his face while 1,000 delegates cheered. The party leadership, he snapped, "must earn its right to lead." Graves thereupon analyzed Democratic troubles. "We have stood in the long shadow of Roosevelt and Truman," he cried, and apparently "can only win when people are hungry. We must...
After the Revolutionary War came the "Rotten Cabbage Rebellion," waged by students against faculty and cooks. The major flare-up concerned the addition of 600 grains of emetic to the morning coffee. A reprisal failed when the administration suspended a student who "did publickly in Hall insult the authority of the College by hitting one of the Officers with a potatoe...
...obscured both the shield's motto, "Tenco et Tencor" (I hold and I am Holden), and the building's original purpose. Holden remained a chapel for scarcely two decades before becoming the home of the Provincial House of Representatives which had fled from British troops in Boston. A further insult to the British benefactress was the building's transformation into a barrack for 160 Revolutionary soldiers. In 1779, after the infantry had departed, the faculty voted that "The college Engines and Buckets be immediately repaired and plac'd in Holden Chapel." The small building became the College's student...
Millre declared the action barring Oppenheimer "an egregious insult to a great scholar" and "a flagrant violation of the fundamental principles of intellectual integrity and liberty of spirit upon which the education system of a free society is erected...