Word: insultable
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...industrial revolution was born in 18th century England, and British working attitudes hardly seem to have changed since. Nowadays petulant, cosseted and truculent, British labor will down tools at the merest hint of any slight or insult. It will jealously defend a host of obsolete prerogatives and work practices that are the despair of man agement efforts at efficiency-and often of labor union leaders themselves. This year alone, Britain's auto industry, main stay of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's export push to bolster the sickly pound, has already been hit by 109 separate strikes equaling...
...Declaring that France has no intention of surrendering any sovereignty to the Common Market, he in effect closed the door to the sort of Common Market that Europe has envisioned-one that would have its own decision-making body, its own treasury and its own supranational laws. Deftly adding insult to injury, De Gaulle heaped scorn on the Eurocrats, the architects of the Common Market, by referring to them as "a technocratic, stateless and irresponsible clique," and to their plans as "a project removed from reality." It is "conceivable and it is desirable," said De Gaulle, that the Common Market...
With the Kennedy Administration about to take over, Lee decided to abide the insult long enough to test the new President's response. It was straightforward and unequivocal: no under-the-table money at all, economic assistance only on its merits-and only if it was clearly not a quid pro quo for the spy's release. Secretary of State Rusk sent Lee an apology, and Lee let the agent go without fanfare...
...some parlors offer prizes, ranging from cases of beer to cash, for those who land more than five fish per hour. To help anglers pass the time, other managements supply free movies, some of them erotic. Members of the Japan Anglers' Association, purists all, call the craze an "insult to the noble sport." But the police have not yet found any law to prevent it. About the only sufferers seem to be the carp, which bear the scale scars of many a near miss, and have to swim through water mixed with a dye to make it look deep...
...Adding insult to injury was the fact that the man who invoked this so-called "21-day" rule was Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, chairman of the Labor and Education Committee and by any standard the House's purest demagogue. Floor Manager Powell attempted to limit debate to two hours; but amid Republican demands for more time, he and Speaker John McCormack decided to permit five hours, despite Powell's lament that the delay would force him to break a $1,500 speaking engagement in Austin, Texas...