Word: insult
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...week's end, despite a massive police and army manhunt, the escapees had not been found. To add insult to injury, the daring jailbreak cost the I.R.A. not a penny. Irish Helicopters Ltd. had rented the Alouette to the mysterious "Mr. Leonard" without asking for any advance payment...
...appearance of a President produces some enlightenment. But the frustrations were as great as the satisfaction, and in the end the session degenerated into a display of insult and bitterness. It was all beamed out to a people that already is in anguish...
...clear case of robbing Peter to pay Paul to rob Peter again, workers must use reduced wages to buy increasingly higher-priced food, food whose cost has been raised by speculative use of the very money taken out of the workers' own wages. Adding insult to injury is a mild description of the bourgeoisie's attempt to kill the working class and make it pay for the funeral...
...painful proceedings. Senator Edward Kennedy decried the firing of Cox as "a reckless act of desperation by a President who is afraid of the Supreme Court, who has no respect for law and no regard for men of conscience. The burden is now on Congress to nullify this historic insult to the rule of law and to the nation's system of justice." Argued West Virginia Congressman Ken Hechler: "Impeachment proceedings must be initiated at the earliest possible moment." California Congressman Don Edwards urged Nixon to admit that he had made "a terrible mistake" and resign...
Christian's New York is alternately tempting and repulsive, "one monstrous insult to the delicate spirit." A funeral director gladly offers to forget the bill for burying Christian's wife if he will come to work as a front man at the mortuary. An industrialist thinks he can use a little class in the jingle department...