Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mulrain called the Ferber taunt "an insult to my hard-working men," challenged his critic to join him in a garbage-seeking tour. The only difficulty was that Mulrain himself had deplored New York's "perennially filthy condition" while urging greater civic pride last February...
...Insult. Fortnight ago their chance came. Yoshida was under attack in the press for following a foreign policy "subservient" to that of the U.S. Socialists accused him of rearming Japan before Japan can afford rearmament; rightists warned that he is not rearming Japan fast enough to meet the Communist threat. (Hatoyama favors direct rearmament, wants to remove the disarmament pledge which MacArthur put into the Japanese constitution; Yoshida prefers the subterfuge of a national police force...
...where the U.S. occupation placed them, and set them under the national government. The Yoshida program, they said, was a reversion to "evils of the past." Needled by opposition, delays, Yoshida lost his temper, called an opposition member an idiot. In the excessively polite Japanese language, this was an insult indeed. Though he hastily apologized, the opposition pressed home a vote of censure, followed it up with the nonconfidence motion. Yoshida thereupon dissolved the Diet, forcing new elections, to be held April...
Many a good Texan agreed with Columnist Wes Izzard of the Amarillo Daily News: "No bunch of smut merchants can hurt Texas . . . They decided to insult somebody to get their magazine back in the limelight . . . Don't play into their hands by buying a copy." But such warnings did little good. When Esquire hit the stands, Texans flocked...
...Gordon replace James O. Robertson '54, who resigned the chairmanship recently. In his letter of resignation, Robertson said he quit the post because, "I see absolutely no reason for the weekend. Harvard men need not have a weekend foisted upon them to have a good time. It is an insult to the individual to think this is necessary...