Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Criticism or Insult? Is it insulting for a critic to write that a Rigoletto chorus sounded like "a bunch of miniature pinschers"? Indeed it is, cried 48 members of Austria's Graz Opera chorus, and they sued Critic Richard Ahne of the Graz Steirerblatt for likening them to yelping dogs...
...pills. But despite the undaunted doctor, the delegates could not help feeling a little querulous. Detroit's Mayor Albert E. Cobo had pleaded that he was too busy to welcome them. By solemn resolution, the delegates found the excuse flimsy and the mayor's conduct "an outrageous insult." Politicians didn't do that sort of thing in the old days...
...final gesture of solidarity with an ally, the navy officially apologized to the U.S. for spoiling its party. "We did not intend to insult much-appreciated goodwill to Siam," said the navy, "but we were compelled by patriotic motives...
...Kitty MacCann of Tullamore, Ireland, playing with sun-blistered arms swathed in bandages, the British women's amateur golf championship, on a hilly, gorse-infested course; in Broadstone, England. Complained U.S. Champion Beverly Hanson, after losing in the quarterfinals: "It was an insult to our intelligence to ask us to play on that terrible course. It was a nightmare...
...through a bill forbidding the government to grant an oil concession to anyone without legislative permission. Since this was aimed at the Russians, who were trying to extract an oil concession in northern Iran, the Iranian Communists called Mossadeq a British agent. He never got over the insult...