Word: insult
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubts remained, freshmen phenom Greg Olson dispelled them when he backhanded a loose puck past Moffett at 6:35 in the final stanza. Lau & Co. added insult to injury by denying two UNH power plays as the clock would down...
...public opinion, be nice enough and allow Iranian physicians to go check. That request was refused by the U.S. Government. Then we realize that the U.S. Government doesn't give a damn about public opinion in our country and by accepting the Shah, deliberately and openly tries to insult our people, our revolution and our ideals. That was intolerable. Then these students felt they had been tremendously insulted and doublecrossed. They acted by themselves. They took the embassy...
...students have done something that was in the heart of every Iranian-to strike back at the insult they had received...
Similar stories of crime are coming from other cities. In Tianjin (Tientsin), the local press last month reported on "criminal elements who provoke fights, rob pedestrians and humiliate and insult women in broad daylight." In Peking, there have been reports of small bands of young men who lie in wait in dark alleys to rob passersby. In Hangzhou (Hangchow) last month, two brothers were sentenced to death-and one of them immediately executed-for having raped 106 women over the past five years. In the southern district of Shaoguan (Shao-kuan), nine teen-agers were seized after assaulting a woman...
...Shah's presence in the U.S. is a disgrace and an insult to the integrity of the American people, regardless of their view on the hostage issue. The conflict is not between our nations. Our anger is not directed at Americans because they are Americans. We have no genes for anti-Americanism in us. Our anger is directed at those in power who installed and maintained the Shah for 25 years, as they still do for dictators in Chile, Guatemala, Paraguay, the Philippines and around the world...