Word: insultable
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...expert, M. de Malancourt conducted his own defense in the great French tradition. "A picture of one's backsides, he argued, was more intimate and personal than a photograph of one's face. To send it to a friend or acquaintance, therefore, was not an insult, but a mark of affection and esteem. Furthermore, it was a token more permanent and honest than the conventional photograph, since one's bottom changes less rapidly and radically than one's face, the latter being exposed to wind and weather as well as the ravages of time." The human...
...Negroes, at first, were delighted. When they took another look, they began screaming "Nazi attitude," "insult," "a definite straddle." The reason was plain as a battleship: new rule or no, Negroes still cannot rise above a noncom, still must train and serve in segregated groups...
...broadcasters themselves studied radio, admitted that something was wrong. One thing wrong: now that the burden of news broadcasts is so grave, their commercials are at best a distraction, at worst an insult to the listener. Last fortnight, at the instance of the Broadcasters' Victory Council, a committee of the National Association of Broadcasters recommended certain minimum rules for news program commercials. Among them...
...Your introduction to the Dec. 29 issue of TIME is an insult to the intelligence of every patriotic citizen...
...Japanese or pseudo-Japanese music except the chorus Miya Sama, Miya Sama. ... In the second place, the whole opera is exceedingly offensive to all Japanese because of its flippant treatment of their divine Mikado. . . . So let's not deprive ourselves of some fine entertainment and a chance to insult the Japs. . . . J. C. THOMPSON Borinquen Field...