Word: insult
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...enough that Princeton is ignored every year by the selection committee, but insult is added to injury when the District II championship games are played every year on Princeton's Finney Field while the Tigers watch...
...that as it may, Kissinger's request of November would have been an outright insult to any reporter. Such requests are always mandatory before-not after-the fact, and are appropriate only in the case of private conversations, not general pronouncements. In effect, Kissinger was trying to suppress what legitimately belonged in the public domain...
...large percentage of the class. Secondly, about one-third of Harvard-Radcliffe '71 (or about 500 classmates) do not even have their photographs in the book-presumably because they did not want to spend the two-and-a-half bucks the yearbook charges for the privilege. To add insult to injury, the yearbook did not bother to print biographies of the half-thousand seniors who did not have their pictures taken. It would perhaps be easier to forgive the rest of the inanities of this opus if it had at least lived up to its basic function of providing...
...What a Sneaky Pete type of diplomacy the Chinese have resorted to in the Ping Pong incident [April 26]. What an insulting way to go about re-establishing relations with this country. This should really tell us something of the contempt in which we are held by our enemizs. The amount of space and profundity devoted to this insult shows how willing we are to absorb...
...devotee of table tennis, I am sure that your coverage of the U.S.T.T.A. team in China was great for the game, but to be called a Ping Pong player is a standard insult to a serious competitor in the U.S. Why don't you say that Lew Alcindor plays "dribble drabble," and Johnny Unitas "punt punt...