Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleases, because generally no one keeps it from doing as it pleases. It is not rebellious-either against convention or instruction, the state or fate, Pop or Mom. Toward its parents, it exhibits an indulgent tolerance. As one young New Yorker put it with a shrug: "Why insult the folks...
...gross "violation of accepted academic practice and the traditions of the college . . ." The board's reply was to move the admiral's installation up a day earlier. To Dean Nelson Marshall, who pushed through the athletic investigation last spring, this was nothing less than a "studied insult to our faculty," and he resigned forthwith...
...handed to his plans in the past week when big Ed Weaver, one of the two ends who are the only lettermen left from last year's squad, was declared temporarily ineligible for today's game, ostensibly for failing an exam. Also injuries have been added to the basic insult over the past few weeks, and top backs Tom Bell, Freddle Meyers, John Wing, and Pote Manus were unable to appear last Saturday against Dartmouth. All of them, however, may be back in action today...
...Reds staged anti-Pollio demonstrations, plastered Kaifeng with posters-one of them proclaimed that "Pollio is the son of a dog and a horse," which, in China, combines the insult of animal ancestry with the insult of miscegenation. Last spring, Bishop Pollio asked some Red hoodlums outside his church to take their noise elsewhere. The Reds cried that he was "interfering with the liberties of the people," and he was jailed...
Critic Ahne won a dismissal of the suit when he found a zoologist to testify that the pinscher is a noble dog, and that the simile was therefore no insult. But the chorus appealed to a higher court, and the judge ruled against Critic Ahne: "There is a border beyond the bounds of good taste that deserves punishment. It is true that pinschers are a noble race of dogs, but Herr Ahne wanted, by his comparison, to humiliate the chorus." Sentence : 500 schillings fine or a week in jail...