Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acting on the week-old advice of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, President Eisenhower dramatically offered $15 million worth of food to hungry Easy Germany, and gave the Reds a chance to refuse it. They did, calling the offer an "insult," and thereby stood convicted of condemning East Germans to hunger. U.S. food supplies would still be shipped to Germany, and pictures of U.S. freighters, Hamburg-bound with milk, lard and flour, blazed in Europe's newspapers...
...against this conspiracy!" he said. "This Federal Security Police, this national insult, should exist no longer, now that there is no more booty to cover up. Now we have a First Magistrate who has the people's support because he is keeping his promise to regenerate Mexico and make an end of the filthy sewer of mud that has smothered the national conscience under a certain prosperity these past six years, and has transformed a pedregal [old lava field] into a spectacular oasis for the profit of investors...
Looking on, the Peking radio betrayed something akin to sympathy for the U.S. predicament. It no longer called Rhee a U.S. puppet, and even for the first time spoke of the U.S. as a democratic nation. Rhee's actions, said Peking in a July 4 broadcast, constitute "an insult to the spirit of independence and democracy of the American people and their ancestor, Washington." If these nosegays are any index, the Reds are as anxious for a truce as ever - perhaps more...
...Venetian ambassador wangled his release, Casanova went back to Mengs and more adventures. But the long-suffering Mengs soon had enough and asked the great libertine to leave. Says Casanova bitterly in his Memoirs: "To the painter I wrote that I felt that I had deserved the shameful insult he had given me by my great mistake in acceding to his request to honor him by staying at his house ... As a matter of fact, he had only asked me to stay with him to gratify his own vanity...
...letter writer to the CRIMSON reopened the "Dirty Music" controversy about the band's action during the football games. Some complained that the Harvard band should form the letter of the opposing school and play its song. Delcevare King '95 in a letter called it an insult for Harvardmen to sing Yale songs when the Crimson was playing Holy Cross. The band's drum major, William M. Hickey, replied that the writer was "Wrong, wrong as anyone could be." He charged that the band had played a Holy Cross song during its march in, and had formed...