Word: insult
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Petty Insult. Nenni's plan infuriated the fellow travelers in his party's high command. "A scandal,'' cried one. Shouted another: "For a few corrections in the capitalist system, they are offering the breakup of the workers' movement." But Nenni's proposal carried...
...seen on the screen. All too often, when a shell bursts, out come hearts and flowers. And at every opportunity the screen is cluttered with low-comedy Krauts and G.I. jokers. Such tricks may be good show business but they are also bad history and bad taste. They often insult the intelligence and sometimes insult the dead...
...prevent wild swings in the prices, the six major producing nations are joined with 14 consuming countries in the International Tin Council. The I.T.C. was able to moderate the Russian dumping by enforcing strict output quotas on its members and by putting pressure on Moscow, which is reluctant to insult the politically sensitive producing nations. But the I.T.C. is not a very toothy dragon because the U.S., which accounts for 23% of the world's annual tin consumption of 215,000 tons, refuses to join on the grounds that the I.T.C. smacks too much of an international cartel. Last...
...musical wife were musical background and talent as a hostess. Biggest faults: taking stands on too many issues and bragging about husbands. Warned one conductor's wife, who found herself smiling icily at an antagonistic newspaper critic all through a cocktail party: "You have to be impervious to insult...
...These charges insult the integrity and decency of the delegates," Kennedy asserted, asking the Attorney General to "try cases in the courts, not in the newspapers...