Word: insultable
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...Princetonians completed their polls, most of them were left with mixed feelings. They cherished the honor system at Princeton; they thought its absence at Harvard an insult and an inconvenience. "I think it unpardonable," one graduate fumed, "that a lot of minor bureaucrats should look over my shoulder, control my smoking habits and follow me to the latrine...
...have been attacked as too young for office. Quirino didn't ask my age when he asked me to clean up Huks . . . They have attacked me because I was once a mechanic and truck driver. That's not an insult to me but an insult to 19 million humble Filipinos...
...that Hero Alan Ladd follows "the Hollywood strongman tradition," which, "coupled with extreme emphasis on a series of bloody fist fights, constitutes . . . capitulation to current Hollywood standards." Another deviationist error: "The wives of the homesteaders . . . are shown urging their husbands to give up and move on. This is an insult to the great tradition of pioneer women...
Acting on the week-old advice of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, President Eisenhower dramatically offered $15 million worth of food to hungry Easy Germany, and gave the Reds a chance to refuse it. They did, calling the offer an "insult," and thereby stood convicted of condemning East Germans to hunger. U.S. food supplies would still be shipped to Germany, and pictures of U.S. freighters, Hamburg-bound with milk, lard and flour, blazed in Europe's newspapers...
...against this conspiracy!" he said. "This Federal Security Police, this national insult, should exist no longer, now that there is no more booty to cover up. Now we have a First Magistrate who has the people's support because he is keeping his promise to regenerate Mexico and make an end of the filthy sewer of mud that has smothered the national conscience under a certain prosperity these past six years, and has transformed a pedregal [old lava field] into a spectacular oasis for the profit of investors...