Word: insulted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began, known as the "Rotton Cabbage Rebellion." between the students and the food they were being served. Among other incidents, this conflict once found 600 grains of tartar emetic applied to the College's morning coffee (with disastrous results), and a student suspended after he "did publickly in Hall insult the authority of the College by hitting one of the Officers with a potatoe." By 1816 the expanding collection of books and apparatus squeezed out the Commons to the newly-erected University Hall, and the whole second floor became the library, the old chapel downstairs became a recitation room...
...people like to read stories and books that reek with sin, that shame the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, that shock and insult high heaven? It is because millions in America are honeycombed with impurity, vice, adultery and moral rot. When they read popular books and magazines that sanction this . . . they feel less guilty about their own sins...
Slyly, Tydings proposed that the standing Expenditures Committee do the war investigating. The chairman of Expenditures, Vermont's George Aiken, would conduct a scrupulously fair investigation, as Democrats well know. "If the Senate should not accept my amendment," Tydings said with relish, "the Senate would insult every member, Democratic and Republican, of [Aiken's] committee. I cannot see how in the public interest the Senate can now go back on their own child [the reorganization act] and adopt a foster child of somewhat bastard parentage...
...flare-up came after Attorney General Tom Clark told the court that Lewis' scorning of a Federal Court order, designed to head off last November's coal strike, was an insult to the United States and an invitation to 'mob rule...
Meetings of the Allied Council, meanwhile, grow more farcical daily. Every suggestion of the Russian representatives is taken as a personal insult by George Atcheson, U. S. Delegate, who cries "Communist propaganda" at Russian suggestions which the British, even, are willing to accept...