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Word: insult (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money I've sunk in bronchitis," she said recently, "if I die of anything else, I'll shoot myself." For years she called her daughter "Biddy Jean," until a nun at Scranton's Marywood Seminary put a stop to it on the ground that the term biddy was an insult to Irish womanhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: BROADWAY | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...give added insult, Red China has been elaborately conciliatory to its other neighbors, while treating the Indians with scorn. In January, Premier Chou En-lai ratified a border treaty with Burma, impudently drawing a line that gave Burma a small slice of northeastern India as part of the deal. Except for disputed Mount Everest, the Chinese have about reached a border pact with Nepal (Red China naturally wants the world's highest peak). Now Pakistan President Mohammed Ayub Khan says he plans to get together with the Chinese and draw a northern border for the Pakistan-held sector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Very Patient Nehru | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...Negro) Medical Association contrasted the slow U.S. pace of oral vaccine development with Russia's high-speed drive,* Dr. Sabin snapped: "It requires leadership to get these things done. We simply need leadership." Dr. Robert N. Barr, representing state health officers, blew up: "That's a damned insult, Mr. Chairman! I object to that statement." But Sabin would not withdraw it. "The National Foundation has supported [with $1,200,000] all the research work I've ever done on the oral vaccine," said Sabin, "but the foundation has shown no interest in bringing fruits of this research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Imbroglio | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

...choice. After he vetoed Keenan for the Defense Department post, McNamara attempted to soothe hurt labor feelings by calling on A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, assuring him that "I'm not anti-union." Meany was unmoved and unsoothed. Said he: "His visit to me was a gratuitous insult as far as I'm concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Capital Notes: Jan. 27, 1961 | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...George E. Sokolsky, an off-and-on Ike fan, credited him with preserving the peace but complained about the bill: "One might almost say that his was a peace at any price. It was during his eight years that Soviet Russia achieved victory after victory and the U.S. took insult after insult." Columnist Joseph Alsop, who regards optimism as a character flaw, faulted Eisenhower for his complacency: "President Eisenhower, it is plain, is one of those men who prefer to deal with difficult problems and dangerous situations by displaying massive unconcern, meanwhile hoping that time will remove the difficulties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Farewell to Ike | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

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