Word: insult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chimney of No. 21 rue Le Sueur had often smoked annoyingly. But never had the fumes seemed such a nauseating insult to solid Parisian nostrils. A housewife across the street finally lost patience, phoned the police...
...that the Negro press is prone to exaggerate the objectionable aspects of the book. They sometimes think of Uncle Tom as nothing more than a quisling." He also compared Mrs. Stowe with Tolstoy, called the resentment of the liberals and a "surprising" number of distinguished Negroes an insult and an irreverence toward the author...
...running for a fourth term" because they regard themselves as indispensable to the conduct of the war. But after the Roosevelt message, balding, humorless Bob Taft, ordinarily dry and legal in manner, leaped up with red face and flailing arms. He called the President's message a "direct insult" to Congress, and charged that the President is planning to line up soldiers for the Fourth Term "as the WPA workers were marched to the polls...
...almost exclusively a man's disease, cancer of the gall bladder almost exclusively a woman's. People who get diseases that are more frequent in the opposite sex are likely to have many of that sex's physical and mental characteristics. The doctors mean no insult by this-they say it is the gynic (female) factors in a man that make him a good physician...
...Blood. Whatever Pravda meant with its "rumor from Cairo," the consequences of publication and later broadcast were swift and frightening. The British Government presented its stern denial directly to the Soviet Government. The British press fired harsh words at Russia for the first time since Hitler turned east: lie, insult, slander. Nazi propaganda set to work to prove a fatal rift in the fabric of agreement supposedly woven at Teheran, raise again the specter of a Red Europe. Ordinary Russians, taught to believe their press implicitly, now wondered whether Britain was about to betray them. In the U.S. many...