Word: insultable
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...British agents, had fallen into the hands of a newspaper editor. She found the editor in a shooting gallery on the Champs Elysees, challenged him to a shooting match, put her six pistol shots into the center of the card. Said she, in a loud voice: "If any man insulted me in a way detrimental to my work, I should take the insult as the challenge, and that," pointing to the perforated card, "would be my answer...
...Americanism" that brought DAR action was the "unamerican" flying of another flag on an equal level with that of the United States. A DAR agent found the Un guilty of this and the outraged Daughters hastened to have the equal arrangement changed. When the Norfolk Navy Yard repeated the insult, they passed a resolution demanding a Congressional investigation...
Although the Pentagon has bungled once, it can avert further misunderstanding by making clear why the soldiers are questionable cases. A full report on each soldier will wipe out the harmful speculation, and clear the innocent of this insult of their integrity. Especially in the case of these prisoners, facts, not guesswork, should be the criteria for accusation...
Mulrain called the Ferber taunt "an insult to my hard-working men," challenged his critic to join him in a garbage-seeking tour. The only difficulty was that Mulrain himself had deplored New York's "perennially filthy condition" while urging greater civic pride last February...
...where the U.S. occupation placed them, and set them under the national government. The Yoshida program, they said, was a reversion to "evils of the past." Needled by opposition, delays, Yoshida lost his temper, called an opposition member an idiot. In the excessively polite Japanese language, this was an insult indeed. Though he hastily apologized, the opposition pressed home a vote of censure, followed it up with the nonconfidence motion. Yoshida thereupon dissolved the Diet, forcing new elections, to be held April...