Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably did more to hurt our relations with Soviet Russia than any other single act since June 1941. The Union's high command resolutely refused under any conditions to cooperate with "Totalitarian," Soviet labor. It refused even to meet or have preliminary discussions with representatives from Russia. No greater insult could be leveled against our fighting ally, for among other aims it is the rights of working men for which Russia is bleeding today...
...insult me," said the septuagenarian President of the onetime Chamber of Deputies, vigorous in his resistance, in the growing resistance of France. "You can tell your masters that I am not obliged to take any engagements. I have only one thought, to serve France. How, does not concern you. You have the police and force, and you can use them...
...welcome to as much of the stuff as he could hold." This brew supposedly prevented scurvy, certainly helped morale. Said Washington Irving: "He is continually giving entertainment by way of parade, and if you do not drink raw rum and boiling punch as strong as sulfur he will insult...
When Randolph Paul had finished, the Senate committee piled insult on reproof. It asked him to supply a Treasury proposal for a sales tax-one kind of tax which he has always opposed. As if he had known the worst in advance, Paul fished in his brief case and brought out a sales-tax proposal readymade...
...politics"; it dominates Japanese politics. No Cabinet can survive without the army's approval. Political genius was therefore closely allied to military genius, and the soldier with genius or capacity in both fields was all the more necessary to the army. Itagaki therefore had to take no insult when his closest friend and associate, General Juzo Nishio, said: "I'll do the fighting. Let Itagaki do the office work...