Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...23rd CRIMSON score came as somewhat of an insult to WHRB, as the local newsmen inserted their cheerleader-manager from the Radcliffe Bureau to toss in a free throw...
...dispute may end before the NATO Council, where Britain and France can point to the fact that Germany has been contributing less than 4% of its gross national product to the Western military effort compared with 9% for Britain, 7% for France, almost 12% for the U.S. To add insult to injury, as tax-weary Britons noted last week, Bonn's latest budget proposal includes a sweeping tax reduction that will eliminate income taxes completely for some 3,000,000 Germans...
...doused her hair in sweet lemonade, and before her father, the bridegroom or any of the guests could recover their senses, shaved herself bald-which to good Buddhists signifies the renunciation of all fleshly pleasures and was, therefore, a flaming insult to the groom...
Marcos Péerez Jiménez made his biggest blunder by getting himself "reelected" President in a me-or-nobody plebiscite last Dec. 15. This cynical insult to the nation's honor drove air-force men to try a New Year's uprising. That revolt was crushed, but it touched off a rapid sequence of plots, civilian riots and student demonstrations that reached their inevitable climax last week...
...reflections on his distinguished brood. "Sir Hugh." said he, "was always considered the slightly out-of-step hearty in an intellectual menage . . . Several times when he was six or seven he went off, and we found him with the gypsies on the downs -hardly distinguishable from them." Then, adding insult to injury, father Foot remarked that "anybody can be an M.P. or governor of Cyprus" and hailed a recent book on Jonathan Swift by son Michael as "the summit of the Foot family's achievement...