Word: insult
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, Peruvians of every political stripe clamored for action against the I.P.C. contract as a living insult to their national dignity. In last June's national elections every major-and minor-party denounced the oil company. The army had already called the agreement "injurious to national sovereignty." Major newspapers were against I.P.C.-even La Prensa, Lima's prestigious daily owned by former Premier Pedro Beltrán, who is probably the best friend U.S. businessmen ever had in Peru. The end of I.P.C.'s privileged position, said La Prensa, was "an aspiration of all Peruvians...
...lived, generously, and this fact alone put him at a disadvantage with people. His early letters record his triumphs over the demon gin; his defeats were recorded by others. Because he was a famous young man, he could never anonymously fall down a flight of stairs or insult his hostess or make a howling clown of himself, because someone was always there industriously to record a momentary superiority to a man who had temporarily made an idiot of himself. He had the further bad fortune to be a romantic and, what is more, a romantic who was foolish enough...
...tailor. To call him Hollywood's No. 1 tailor would be to insult him by suggesting that there could possibly be a No. 2 Hollywood tailor. He gets about $50 a stitch, because his label, in Hollywood, signifies incomparable status. When a star gets into the 10%-of-the-gross category, he is ready for Sy Devore...
...reply of Yale's Acting President Kingman Brewster Jr. to that question, put up to him by the school's Political Union, was no-it would insult and possibly incite New Haven Negroes. Last week the Ivy League fell all over itself to refute Brewster. The Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats invited Wallace to speak there, got a ruling of "no objection" from President Nathan M. Pusey. When the Brown University Daily Herald also invited Wallace, President Barnaby Keeney said that Brown is open to all speakers-"Communists, fascists, racists and bigots." Princeton's Robert Goheen sanctioned...
...figure during the London blitz, and as perhaps the most ruthless, malign businessman in U.S. history. To Lasky it was Joe's dough alone that made Jack President and Bobby the nation's second most powerful man. And the father did it all to avenge an ethnic insult. "Having suffered all the slights and indignities Brahmin Boston could contrive for its despised minorities [the new Irish], Joseph P. Kennedy had set out to beat his persecutors at their own game." Lasky even makes it sound sinister when President Kennedy "dropped the nation's business...