Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British economic miracle akin to the German Wirtschaftswunder. Britain has merely won breathing space. Since World War II, the twin costs of vestigial great-power commitments abroad and a welfare state at home have consistently overburdened the economy, restricted successive governments' freedom of maneuver and earned Britain the epithet, "Sick Man of Europe." Now Britain is buoyantly convalescent, but it could still shudder into a relapse. Ironically, it fell to the Labor government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson to apply the necessary conservative measures: lower public expenditures at home and an end to many commitments overseas...
Entrenched managements usually try to brand those who start proxy fights as "raiders" or, in the epithet applied by Montgomery Ward executives to Louis Wolfson and associates, "financial pirates." Executives of Minneapolis-based Honeywell Inc. can hardly take that line against one discontented stockholder. He is Charles Pillsbury, 22-year-old scion of the family that founded the flour-milling Pillsbury Co. Far from seeking control of Honeywell, young Pillsbury, a senior in Latin American studies at Yale, is trying to convert the proxy fight into an instrument of protest against the Viet...
...throwing out that lawsuit, the Minnesota supreme court recently ruled that calling a public figure an s.o.b. is not in itself defamatory. While Papenfuss's remarks displayed some ill will, said the court, Beatty had failed to prove "malice"-as the law requires. Moreover, Beatty admitted that the epithet had not hurt his law practice. "Calling a man a son of a bitch, unworthy as it is in public debate," concluded the court, "could not be reasonably construed as an actual reference to his ancestry or even to his general character...