Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earth. It was not lack of patriotism which lay behind the order to leave the American legation; it was experience of the history of more than one recent crisis and an exact knowledge of the unimportance of American interests and the importance of avoiding friction. The so-called "insult to the American flag" has served to prove not only the value of that experience, but also the unchanged sensationalism of American newspapers...
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...resent being called a sucker. That's a low-down insult, a slap at all my buddies who went west, as well as those of us still carrying on. Would World Peaceways dare tell any Gold Star Mother her son was a sucker...
...July 29). All this the introducer recalled just as he was beginning to grope uncomfortably for something more to say. Dr. Shapley came to his rescue, began to talk glibly and learnedly about ants. Said he: "When you go out of your way to step on an ant, you insult the order of Nature, for you, a mere social upstart, are jumping on a creature that perfected a social system some 30,000,000 years...
...with the latest of cheese," recommended "more ether" for such radio commentators. Equally irate was Mercer County Grand Jury Foreman Allyne M. Freeman at Carter's implication that politics, not justice, motivated his jurymen. Cried Foreman Freeman: "A cowardly, libelous and malicious lie! I consider his comments an insult to the Grand Jury. I shall never accept a penny nor an ounce of political patronage as remuneration for any statement I ever make about this unfortunate case, and the statements I do make will be based upon facts and will be truthful. Boake Carter. I assume, is being paid...