Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...geological expedition into my interior," his way of explaining an operation for kidney stones. But Harry Truman was. Off the cuff, Harry cracked jokes for ten minutes and, turning serious, warned: "We can't have the friendship of the free world if we are going to insult our friends and allies...
...Take a Harvard House, put the 200 most eccentric people in Cambridge in it, and you have an approximate picture of Bard College," has said one critic of the little college overlooking the Hudson. That most Bard students would not consider this an insult is perhaps the best proof of its truth...
...American Physical Society: "We have spent billions on the Marshall Plan, and then alienate much of the resulting good will by an unsympathetically and woodenly administered visa policy. This situation reminds one of the railroad that lavishes a mint of money on new streamliners and then lets the conductor insult the passengers..."Shown above is part of the East Boston Detention Station for Immigrants, where new arrivals are held for questioning, if necessary, and deportees are kept pending their removal from the country. Main offices of the Immigration service are in downtime Boston...
...editorship in 1903. To be sure, there was still a preponderance of articles and editorials on athletic subjects, but these pieces now showed an interest transcending the simple necessity of beating Yale every year. The Bulletin staunchly resisted the advent of professional coaching, for example, and delivered the supreme insult to Harvard's athletic chauvinists when, despite heavy criticism, it declared that in the interest of "modesty" it would continue referring to athletic contests as, for instance, the Yale-Harvard game, and not the Harvard game...
Money & Prizes. The rarest of the rare ones is You Bet Your Life, a quiz show that is little more than an excuse for Groucho Marx, in his cheerful way, to insult six contestants a night. Other unemployed funnymen have tried in vain to duplicate Groucho's success. Fred Allen just does not seem right on NBC's Judge for Yourself, and Herb Shriner on CBS's Two for the Money is far from rivaling Groucho's hold on his audience. When the wit falters, quiz shows usually try to make up for it by giving...