Word: insultable
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Eight months ago, Radical Party Leader Ricardo Balbin was arrested by Peronista police on charges of being "disrespectful" to the President of the Republic. In Peronista eyes, the 46-year-old lawyer had added injury to insult when he dared run for governor of Buenos Aires Province against a Perón-backed candidate. After his arrest, Balbin boldly insisted on a trial, but one embarrassed judge after another managed to get the ticklish case off his docket; meanwhile, Balbin was shunted from jail to jail. Finally, an obscure...
...just attempt at equalizing the balance of power in the American scene, and will praise its purpose and methods. Your condemning of it is not only indicative of your complete adherence to the party line, and of your lack of originality, but it is also an insult to a great many of your readers...
Dean Alter of the Graduate School of Boston University, whose R.O.T.C. unit did distribute the book, said yesterday that "though the intention of the pamphlet is honorable, the insult to the intelligence of college freshmen is unforgivable...
...jampec style, along with the warning that "everybody who imitates this American fashion madness belongs to the capitalist U.S. in spirit." One shop window (see cut) showed a gorilla next to a jampec and a telegram from the Budapest zoo's monkey house protesting against the insult of comparing a jampec to one of their kind...
...spoon-fed throughout its formative years by a pious, iron-willed Scot named John Reith. BBC gave its listeners, not what they wanted, but what Director General Reith thought they needed. To use radio just for entertainment, said Reith, would be a "prostitution of its power" and "an insult to the intelligence of the public...