Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strictly Bush! In Boston, after a particularly bitter exchange with Durocher during one tight game, Stanky loosed his famed insult: "Durocher, you've been a busher all your life, and you'll always be a busher." When asked to comment on Durocher's book, The Dodgers and Me, Stanky was ready with a brief, stinging literary criticism: "Just like the author. Strictly bush...
...completely the patient's attitude towards nervous instability has changed is best appreciated," says Sir Charles, "by doctors who can look back 20 or 30 years to a time when it was almost regarded as an insult to suggest to a man that his 'nerves' were his trouble, and who now see one after another coming to tell him that 'his nerves have gone' or that he has just had, or fears that he is 'on the verge of,' a nervous breakdown...
...open insult to both actor Douglas and the principles of Druidism, Big Trees deserves...
...England, oldtime Cinema Comics Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, doing a personal appearance at a Newcastle theater, looked down their noses at the modern generation: "Present-day comedians, particularly those in America, gain laughs at the expense of someone else's discomfort. Insult gags are a crudity we avoid...
After all, the very recognition that minorities exist is but the first step towards the acceptance of the concept that some individuals are inferior. This is an insult, per se, to the recognized and intrinsic value of the individual...