Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tough, stout-hearted Dutch, Belgians, Luxemburgers! Tormented, mishandled, shamefully castaway peoples of Yugoslavia! Glorious Greece, now subjected to the crowning insult of rule by the Italian jackanapes! Yield not an inch. Keep your souls clean from all contact with the Nazis. Make them feel, even in their hour of brutish triumph, that they are the moral outcasts of mankind. Help is coming. Mighty forces are arming in your behalf. Have faith. Have hope. Deliverance is sure...
...true that Americans and Englishmen, generally, find difficulty in mastering foreign languages, but, even if they fail to acquire a perfect accent, or misspell an occasional word, this does not constitute an insult or offense to the natives of the country, as Mr. Mallison apparently considers...
...only fairly well but without an offensive accent. The U.S. and Great Britain have plenty of money to flash in the faces of the South Americans, but money or no money, they are constantly making themselves disliked by their arrogant and aggressive and superior attitude and also they unconsciously insult all the South Americans by their stupid rendition of the language. The behavior of the American men and women in the shops, hotels, restaurants, nightclubs and in all public places is far beneath the quality of the English, and the behavior of the English is at least 40° below...
...illegal," whereas Argentina is following a "fair" policy in buying Axis ships. The U.S. is blamed for difficulties in shipping 200,000 tons of wheat to Spain. Actually there was a shortage of ships. The film Argentine Nights, which was whistled off the screen in Buenos Aires, was an "insult to Argentine sensibilities." Actually the demonstration was carefully staged. Key to the whole campaign is the argument that the ABC countries should unite in a bloc, excluding the U.S. and the rest of Latin America. The Rockefeller Committee is not responsible for major U.S. diplomacy in Latin America. That tortuous...
...Overseers to erect a "neutral" war memorial to Harvard's war dead, on which names of men who died for their country, whatever their counry, would be engraved. A letter to the Crimson, reprinted from the New York World, terms the erection of such a monument "an insult to God," an enduring memorial "to the shame of Harvard and nothing else," because it would list the dead of both sides. The Alumni Bulletin of this period is full of such letters, pro and con. After America entered the war, of course, all thoughts of having a "neutral" memorial were abandoned...