Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broke up the meeting. Said he to reporters after the trembling suppliant had gone: "It is evident that the I.L.A. has done nothing to rectify the conditions for which it was expelled." Would he refer the I.L.A. application to his executive board? No, snapped Meany. "It would be an insult to their intelligence. The matter is closed...
...Nasser was trying to bluff the West with a nonexistent Soviet offer. But how the West could have withdrawn its offer only two days after Nasser had publicly accepted it, and at the same time have expected no startling results, is difficult to understand. Washington obviously thought a public insult by the deeply distrusted West would result in the Colonel's returning humbly to ask for money. But the prize had been dangled in front of Nasser for so long that Mr. Dulles was asking for the worst by pulling it away after the bargaining game had become open...
...making night-time parking in the streets impossible. They shrug off all suggestions of alternate side parking by noting that it is illegal and that we must be good citizens and uphold the law. They ignore the fact that Cambridge residents are rarely fined for overnight parking and add insult to injury by levying fines which are almost three times as high as Cambridge's. The Administration explains that the higher rates and stricter enforcement are necessary because Cambridge fines are too low and too rarely enforced. Just why the University does not urge Cambridge to enforce its own laws...
...four hotels (a fifth is building) seldom bother to take down their "no vacancy" signs, and their barrooms are perpetually jammed around the clock with unshaven miners and prospectors just in from the bush, and ready to swing a rock-hard fist at the drop of an insult...
Died. Archie Galbraith Cameron, 61, terrible-tempered Speaker (since 1950) of Australia's House of Representatives (in 1940, as Minister for both Commerce and the Navy, he refused to retract an insult made on the floor of the House, became the only Minister in the Commonwealth to be voted out of a Parliament for disciplinary reasons); of a lung ailment; in Sydney...