Word: insult
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Insult to All. Because Communist chieftains are so eager to see division in the West, they tend to overestimate both the width of the fissures they detect and their ability to widen them with ploys, threats and propaganda. Crude Communist efforts to stir division within the U.S. or between the U.S. and its allies often have the opposite effect of fostering a more determined unity. Inevitably, Khrushchev's attack on President Eisenhower rebounded...
...visit Russia next month. He demanded an apology for the U-2 flight, threatened to break up the summit conference unless the U.S. would promise to punish all responsible for the flight and promise that all such overflights cease. He suggested, in the kind of face to face insult that strained even cold war diplomacy, that the summit should be adjourned until the U.S. could elect a new president...
Although few Negroes are inclined to take direct action when their race is slurred, sultry Songstress Lena Home, dining in a Hollywood restaurant with her white husband, Musical Director Lennie Hayton, took umbrage when a nearby patron voiced an insult at the singer and her race. Pretty Lena responded with drumfire-a hurricane lamp, some dishes and three ashtrays. Her startled detractor wound up with a gash over his eye. By the time cops arrived, cooler heads had prevailed, and no charges were brought by either side...
Because government censorship kept the case out of the press, news of Galinsoga's insult traveled only by word of mouth. As it did, Catalan pride began popping. Thousands of copies of La Vanguardia were torn to shreds and scattered over Barcelona's streets. Signs appeared on walls, proclaiming (in Catalan): "Down with Galinsoga." As of last week, La Vanguardia's circulation had plummeted 30,000 to 120,000; advertising losses had forced the paper to cut back from an average of 55 to 28 pages a day. Driven to desperation, Publisher Galinsoga backed down, denied that...
...official of the French consulate in Boston recently labelled a proposed Law School Forum discussion between a French representative and a member of the Algerian provisional government as an insult to the honor of France...