Word: insult
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somewhat adding insult to injury, giving Secretary of Defense McNamara a chauffeur-driven Cadillac after that huge loss of Ford income? The least compensation should be a chauffeur-driven Lincoln...
Holmes found quarters off campus, and Charlayne moved into a suite in Central Myers Hall. Attending class next day, Sophomores Holmes and Hunter got a friendly welcome from every teacher, were convoyed by solicitous students and officials. Every time Charlayne heard an insult, she found a white girl beside her saying, "Just ignore those people." University President O. C. Aderhold proudly praised his students for "good judgment and conduct," and it was a fact that all through the week most students refused to oppose integration and a stout minority publicly supported...
...coffee. Then, brown paper lunch bag on the seat beside him, he drives to work in a two-toned Karmann-Ghia. Although lunch is slim-a sardine sandwich, an olive, a cooky and a glass of skim milk-Keys eats with deliberate slowness. "I don't like to insult food," he says. Lunch done, he sits back, closes his eyes, and goes to sleep for exactly ten minutes in his office chair...
...Ghana, if a child should die before it is nine days old, the Fanti simply stuff its remains in a pot and throw it on the trash heap-they take the child's hasty departure as an insult and feel no obligation to respect the departed. Among Orthodox Jews, when two dead men arrive for burial at a cemetery, the more learned of the two, according to Talmudic prescription, must be buried first. In the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia, the Salish Indians dispose of their dead by rolling an avalanche over them. In China, since the Communists took...
...most poignant self-deceit was in expecting a closer liaison with Shaw. He incessantly reminded her of the age difference. When G.B.S. was 90 and his wife Charlotte had died, the unteachable Molly proposed to live with him, and Shaw was scandalized: "The degradation to Literature, the insult to Charlotte's memory would be such that I should be justified in shooting you if there were no other way of preventing you from crashing my gates." Yet his last postcard to her a year before his death (she died last summer) is a bit of romantic doggerel ending with...