Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Economic Review's remarks whitened not one hair. But in Britain, which still resents the fact that Nehru raised more outcry over Suez than over Hungary, remarks about the Queen simply Will not do. NEHRU INSULT TO QUEEN, headlined the London Daily Mail. Hastily, Nehru condemned the article as "wholly intemperate." Said he: "I am greatly disturbed that the Queen's name should have been brought into this, and I should like to offer my apologies...
...unrelated stories in themselves, are used much like algebraic problems by Novelist Deich to set the doctor and the pastor puzzling over the cube roots of free will, normality, responsibility and guilt. To the pastor, psychiatry is an abomination of the spirit; to the psychiatrist, Christianity is an insult to the intelligence...
...Avoid Insult." Around and about these capabilities and problems there is gathering an acute awareness of the importance of the military-diplomatic role. "So we're the big stick," said one SAC officer. "So maybe old Dulles thinks of us when he sits down at the mahogany." And when Admiral Radford one day paraphrased Teddy Roosevelt, "Never extend a military projection beyond its capability of winning," one of his officers echoed afterwards: "Substitute 'diplomatic' for 'military' and you have a currently valid statement. In fact, you have a policy...
...said as he confronted the turbulence of the Old World and got the American Experiment on the way. "There is a rank due to the United States among nations," said Washington, "which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be ready to repel it." Then Arthur Radford, the quiet admiral, adds the postscript that is his life: "The more our country sweats in peace, the less it will bleed...
...letters, the vast majority attacking Ciardi's review. Most were from women, and they assailed Ciardi's blunt rancor more than his assessment. There were, however, rumbles from men readers as well. Historian Geoffrey Bruun solemnly declared: "Ciardi exceeded his privileges as a poetry editor to insult a sincere and sensitive writer." Another writer protested: "Why take a baseball bat to club a butterfly...