Word: insult
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Lewis finds it hard to believe that maybe, just maybe, the "evil" whites who supported keeping the flag up didn't mean it as an insult to blacks at all. And the flag's intent truly is to honor the Confederate dead; whether this fact is misinterpreted shouldn't be the fault of the people who supported it. Furthermore, this is a battle flag (the Confederate naval battle flag, to be precise), the purpose of which is to fly over an army on the battlefield. At no time did this flag ever represent the political or governmental side...
...final insult, Godfree hit a short ground ball in front of the plate with the bases loaded. While freshman Monica Montijo was forced out at home, Siesta sent the ball past the first baseman into right field while going for the double play. Amberg came around to score, and the game was over...
...Harvard contingent responded with nods, yes, people knew about Brandeis. “What’s your position?” Everyone had been introducing themselves as president of this or that Republican group. “69,” he offered. Bob thereby managed to thoroughly insult the sense of decorum of the entire elevator in less than two minutes...
...that in the past years has been consistently used to denigrate the progress of blacks has no place on state grounds. To remove the flag from the top of the capital building, only to hang one in a prominent place is, as NAACP President Kwesi Mfume has said, "added insult to injury...
With his bull neck and broad shoulders, Yoshiro Mori looks more like a rugby player than a politician. He is perceived as an overcautious, scandal-tainted back-room dealer with no discernible ideology, little international experience and zero tact. In recent months, he has managed to insult Americans, Okinawans, Osakans, AIDS sufferers and teachers. As for political courage, even friends say he has the heart of a flea. All of which makes Mori, 62, an ideal Prime Minister--at least in the eyes of the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party, which last week chose him to replace the incapacitated Keizo...