Word: insultable
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After the big snow I located my set of wheels by the red plastic tip on the antennae which barely protruded from the drifts. But when I approached it I saw that the police had tunneled in their cute way to the right windshield wiper. Adding insult to injury they tied the tag to the rubber part of the wiper with a knot any boatswain would have admired. It defied knives and fingernails. Finally, I stripped it off and the rubber left the wiper like a peel leaving a banana...
...wants only enough money to buy her way into a convent and escape from the terrors of life. Only Pedro, the elder son, has learned to cope with life in Spain. A pimp, a Falangist and a black-marketeer, he keeps the family alive even as they insult him for his crimes and venalities...
...Molly's" WAF commission is a "rank" insult to the many intelligent service women in all the branches who have had to earn their commissions the hard way ... I suggest that on her next gift ride from the taxpayers, they take her up 30,000 feet sans oxygen and sans girdle, put her into a spin and let her bring it out herself...
...Usually, we have very little card business on Valentine's Day," remarked one salesgirl ruefully, "but this year everyone seems to be in a rush to insult people...
Regardiess of whether the ad is "an insult to the taste and intelligence of the CRIMSON's readers" we feel that this decision should be made by our readers, not for them. The CRISMON is of course, not Harvard's "semi-official 'voice,'" but an independent newspaper; it does not screen its advertisements for "incongruity" or short-sightedness...