Word: disrespected
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...Last Supper, with life-sized models of the apostles, trick lighting effects and a musical background of Gregorian chants supplied by a phonograph with an electrical record-changing device," but dropped it when they failed to find a suitable Catholic organization to sponsor it. "Rogers says, without any disrespect: 'The nuns would not play ball with...
...telling a political rally at the resort town of Tigre that Ramón Castillo abridged the rights of the people in banning the Acción meetings, José Carlos Vidal, Radical Party campaign speaker, was arrested, charged with disrespect to the Government. Police moved in on the meeting with clubs and warning pistol shots in the air, snipped the wires of the public-address system...
...very well in command of Fort Bragg, N.C., and the Ninth (Infantry) Division. So far as actual practice or command goes, he has everything to learn about tanks. His compensating assets: a proved talent for vigorous command, a capacity for letting qualified subordinates use their brains and experience, constructive disrespect for red tape...
...years ago he decided that the coalition of Republicans and Socialists who had been running Puerto Rico's territorial government should go, organized the Popular Democratic Party to oust them -though he also said that, if he could teach voters disrespect for parties, he would consider his job done. When his followers tried to have a celebration at the party's first anniversary, he stopped them, said there could be a celebration after four years if they kept their campaign promises, a day of mourning if they did not. In Puerto Rico the jibaro family income is about...
...more exploring, some of it in the South Sea Islands. Not long after dropping anchor off New York in 1842, Wilkes was attacked in Congress for killing some cannibals who had murdered two of his officers; also for cruel and inhuman treatment of his men and for disrespect to a superior. He was exonerated by a court-martial...