Word: insulted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Man called a hireling-the custodian of U.M.W.'s building in Washington-and sent him off to deliver the message to William Green. But Bill Green was not in his office to receive John Lewis' final insult, and the messenger had to slip it under the door...
Australia helpfully suggested that since the English language was in dispute, everyone should talk Spanish. Up jumped Mexican Delegate Santiago de la Vega. His language had been insulted! No, shushed a colleague: it was a compliment, not an insult...
...kilo in 1940 now cost 1.65 pesos, the stall-keeper glibly blames la situation Rusa or la inundation de Florida. Unconvinced that the Russians or the Florida hurricane has any connection, the housewife calls for witnesses to behold how she is being robbed; she may shout the top-drawer insult hambreador (hunger-maker), wind up with a call for el paredón (wall used as a backstop for firing squads...
Misrepresentation, thought Elihu Root, was at the bottom of such accidents-misrepresentation, and "ignorance and error [making] wild work with foreign relations. . . . Given the nature of man, war results from the spiritual condition that follows real or fancied injury or insult...
...Gaulle. Reilly provides an occasional-if oblique-glimpse into Roosevelt's personal relationships with the world's political bigwigs. F.D.R., knowing full well that smoking in the presence of Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud would be considered an insult, carefully refrained from doing so; just after the King left, Roosevelt lighted up-and gaily waved goodbye, the cigaret between his fingers. On another occasion, during a conversation between General de Gaulle and the Boss, Reilly sensed such ire in the General's manner that he says: "I was conscience-bound to remove my pistol from...