Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of some 9,000,000 Moroccan Moslems. On Aug. 20, 1953, the French bundled Ben Youssef aboard a DC-3 and exiled him, ostensibly to "save" him from his own people, actually because he supported their demand for more political freedom. So flimsy a pretext was an insult to North Africa's faithful. Morocco's urgent nationalists flatly refused to accept the weak and wizened old man whom Paris foisted on them in Ben Youssef's place. Ben Youssef, never very popular as Sultan, became in exile a martyr...
...Marks. Between the insult and the honor, Captain Alfred Dreyfus had endured a personal agony that included four years of solitary imprisonment on Devil's Island. Because of the injustice done him, France had gone through a dozen of the most turbulent years in its hectic history and come close to civil...
STEEL NEGOTIATIONS are entering the critical stage, but neither union nor management thinks there will be a strike when the contract expires this week. Though Steelworkers' Boss David McDonald has rejected the industry's offer of about a 10?-an-hour wage boost as an "insult," few tempers are ruffled, and the industry is expected to make a satisfactory offer...
...authors of Family Portrait call themselves Christians, they never should have written the play in the first place, as it is an insult to Catholicism. By complaining, Catholics likewise insulted the convictions of their brothers...
...Soviet Union any more than we want ideological ties with the U.S.," said one official. Nor was any Yugoslav pleased by Khrushchev's transparent ruse of making Beria the scapegoat. Said a Tito official: "You can't treat history like a detective story. It's an insult to the Yugoslav people to think they would swallow this...