Word: insult
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help with the confusion at customs. And at Dior last week, Director Jean-Marc Depoix comfortingly reassured his jet-set clientele that Dior's 15% discount would be granted as usual, added that "our foreign friends have been treated lightly enough as it is without adding this new insult...
...opened in Germany, Director Richard Lester attended preview screenings before student audiences in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg. Afterward, he debated the film on the stage with politicians and writers. The results, he remembers, were sometimes quite startling. "One politician began shouting that 'the film is an insult to my English comrades in arms who fought bravely against us, at which point the students in the audience began chanting 'Sieg Heil!' in unison." Such outbursts were the sweet sounds of success for Lester. "Getting these points of view out in the open," he says, "is exactly...
...Specter, who is Jewish, allowed himself a lapse from good taste last week when he quipped that the Irish Catholic Tate was attending "a Communion breakfast in a brewery." Actually, it was a brewery workers' breakfast held in a church hall. Tate leaped on the crack as an insult to Catholics, and Specter publicly apologized. Having shown a 2-to-l advantage in the early opinion polls, Specter's lead over Tate in the latest samplings has dropped to 47% v. 41%, with the rest divided among splinter candidates or undecided...
...face of such evidence, in defiance of the editorial positions taken by both major Boston papers, Louise Day Hicks has consistently stuck to her guns in defending the superiority of the neighborhood school, even when that school was an insult to its own neighborhood, a scar, a cancer, detested, hated, feared. "I believe that little children should go to school in their own neighborhoods, with the children with whom they play. It is as simple as that...
...association strongly feels that any reduction in effort is an insult to 10,000 dead. Korea showed that any stalemate or bombing lull will result in a rapid Communist buildup. This nation has never walked away from world responsibility, and to do so now because of the political aims of a few would be a catastrophe unparalleled in our history...