Word: insultable
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...best chance of making a strong showing against the Thieu-Ky ticket, former Premier Tran Van Huong, announced that "harass ment has diminished." Front-running Thieu had his own reply to charges of election rigging: "If I were to win the elections by foul means, it would be an insult to myself." President Johnson's 22 observers arrived to see for themselves, and were clearly impressed with the mechanical organization of the balloting. Some 100,000 people were due to be working at the 8,808 polling stations, and more than 460 million ballots have been printed...
...British critic, novelist, painter, polemicist, gadfly and editor of the short-lived and incendiary artistic magazine, Blast. This partial autobiography, written in 1937 and now reissued, proves that Lewis could give as good as he got. His book bristles on almost every page with his endless resources for insult. Ezra Pound, after a first impression, was "a cowboy songster"; T. S. Eliot was "a Prufrock who would 'dare' all right 'to eat a peach'-provided he was quite sure that he possessed the correct European table-technique for that ticklish operation...
...difference is not a matter of discipline but of treatment. In previous wars Negro troops were just as heroic, disciplined and devoted as at present, but they were then subjected to official, systematic insult, discrimination, humiliation and frameups in efforts to discredit them. Thanks to the pioneer work of President Harry S Truman, segregation in the armed forces has been virtually eliminated, and the Negro, in the main, has been accepted on the same basis as other fighting men. As a result, the U.S. military establishment is now, ironically, the most democratic institution in American life, which accounts...
...able to "raise their heads" (khong co the cat dau cat eo noi) which means that they will not be able to get anything anywhere in life. In fact, in the past, the destruction of another person's ancestral grave-yard was a capital crime. Now the one insult the Vietnamese find it hard to tolerate is any slighting remark to their parents and ancestors. Thus it is not strange that many would fight till death because of this...
...Vietnam there is also the custom of "banh ech di, banh quy lai" (If someone gives you a cookie, give him back a pudding). The Vietnamese are very proud, they do not want to be mendicants. The worst insult one could give a Vietnamese is to call him a beggar (do an may !). Even beggars themselves do not like to be called "beggar" as such. The U.S., in building houses such as we have described, arouses more resentment than gratitude. Why should the people be thankful when their ancestors' land and houses are destroyed and burnt up, and they...