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Word: insulter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...held ten of the 16 Cabinet posts in the late Georges Pompidou's government. But Giscard named a renegade Gaullist, former Interior Minister Jacques Chirac, as his Premier; although the new President needs Gaullist support to get his programs approved by the National Assembly, he added injury to insult by giving only four of the remaining 15 portfolios to orthodox Gaullists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: No One Here But Us Liberals | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...students* from 40 countries had considerable facility in Chinese before they arrived. One Canadian, for example, is a specialist in Tang poetry; others were in postgraduate studies. Thus they feel that the study materials, which frequently consist of official tracts and xenophobic diatribes from the Chinese press, are an insult to their intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Disillusion in Peking | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...suggest that healing in the military is somehow immoral for a doctor is ridiculous. Is it less moral to treat a wounded airman or soldier than a civilian? I hardly think so. To even suggest it is an insult to the medical profession's vow to heal all who suffer. Mark F. Cancian '73 2/Lt. USMC

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEALING ALL WHO SUFFER | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

...under the conditions that had developed, with our relations falling to pieces, we couldn't possibly offer our hospitality to someone who had already, so to speak, made a mess at his host's table. To receive Eisenhower without first hearing him apologize would be an intolerable insult to the leadership of our country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: The U-2 Affair: A Foot in A Quagmire | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...final run, to add insult to injury, came on a double steal as Driscoll, who reached on a single, drew the throw to second and Thomas crossed the plate to make...

Author: By James W. Reinig and William E. Stedman, S | Title: Harvard Wins Three Games | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

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