Word: aron
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people," he was insulting his neighbors to the north as seriously-and as jokingly-as a coffeehouse wit could. In the 370 pages of his just-published Dictionary of International Slurs (Sci-Art; $6.25), Cambridge's Dr. Abraham Aron Roback, since 1926 lecturer in Massachusetts' University Extension Division, sees such insults as no joking matter. His dictionary is an earnest contribution to education in internationalism, aimed to expose the way in which men of different nations have mistrusted and misjudged each other through the ages...