Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whether such elections could be held in West Germany, Berlin and East Germany, but the commission was denied access to the Soviet zone. Last week Moscow grudgingly accepted discussion of an election commission as part of the agenda for its proposed Big Four meeting, although denouncing it as an "insult" to the German people. On the surface this looked like a change of stance for the Russians-but the gimmick was not hard to find. The election commission was relegated to Item 3 on the proposed agenda. Items 1 and 2 would deal with the framing of the all-German...
...cockney English, not French at all. From London Zsa Zsa replied: "It's much easier to get a million dollars out of a rich husband than it is out of another actress." At week's end, to the entire satisfaction of her pressagent, Corinne recalled another galling insult: "Zsa Zsa said once that I had no breasts. Well, any time she feds like making a contest out of it, I'm ready...
...Barkley this was a high-handed, impetuous insult to the Democratic majority. Solemnly he rose at his front-row desk in the Senate and, in a low and sometimes choking voice, told off Franklin Roosevelt for "his effort to belittle and discredit Congress." He concluded: "Mr. President, let me say . . . that if the Congress of the United States has any self-respect yet left, it will override the veto." The Senate roared, cheered and stamped. The veto was overridden in both houses. At a party caucus Barkley resigned as F.D.R.'s majority leader and, minutes later, was unanimously...
...Insult." The convention's key business was a resolution on the steel dispute. "We cannot and will not," it said, "continue indefinitely to work in 1952 for 1950 wages, and working conditions . . ." But the resolution, still playing by the rules of Government seizure, set no deadline for strike action...
...best to present the facts to their students. And--you must have in mind another factor. That Mr. Fairbank has just as much of a right to hold the opinions he has as Mr. Dwelly. It is a most tasteless and dis-considerate--not to say intolerant--attitude to insult him on this account...