Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equally sound to refer to a public official as the boss of the citizens ... To refer to the public trustee of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund [onetime Coal Mine Operator Josephine Roche], of eminent record, as a stooge of the undersigned is a contemptible insult, derogatory to the writer of your editorial. It exemplifies the innate philosophy of the Bourbon mind and the effeminate snobbishness of inbred aristocracy...
...Lilburne proved too argumentative for his own good. He defied Cromwell as testily as he had defied the King, and was repeatedly jailed for attacks on whatever government was in power. To the end of his life he kept arguing with anyone whom he could find to challenge or insult. His epitaph reads...
...Princetonians completed their polls, most of them were left with mixed feelings. They cherished the honor system at Princeton; they thought its absence at Harvard an insult and an inconvenience. "I think it unpardonable," one graduate fumed, "that a lot of minor bureaucrats should look over my shoulder, control my smoking habits and follow me to the latrine...
...have been attacked as too young for office. Quirino didn't ask my age when he asked me to clean up Huks . . . They have attacked me because I was once a mechanic and truck driver. That's not an insult to me but an insult to 19 million humble Filipinos...
...that Hero Alan Ladd follows "the Hollywood strongman tradition," which, "coupled with extreme emphasis on a series of bloody fist fights, constitutes . . . capitulation to current Hollywood standards." Another deviationist error: "The wives of the homesteaders . . . are shown urging their husbands to give up and move on. This is an insult to the great tradition of pioneer women...