Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signature. It reported that he had faithfully read Communist tracts, passed two "scrutiny" examinations. At first his filial loyalty had been outraged by Communist slurs-"To represent my father, whose knowledge is so wide, as a person who does not understand imperialism was rather an insult." But the "new learning" finally brought him round. Son Hu denounced his father as a "reactionary" who had paved "the road for capitalism-until he returns to the embrace of the people he will always be the people's enemy and also my own enemy...
...Jacob Malik. The Russian representative, snapped Dr. Tsiang one day last week, "spends much of his superabundant energy in trying to prove to us that black is white and that white is black." Malik's retort made spectators grin: Tsiang's reference to black & white was "an insult to 14 million Negroes in the U.S." He added heavily: "White men, too, may have a black conscience and a black soul...
Except for one answer which suggested that Harvard by its historical, geographical, and economic position ought to cater more to Massachusetts natives, comments on the University admissions policy generally praised it as fair. One answer went so far as to label the Fair Education Practices Act a "vile insult to my own college." Several voiced doubts about the absolute absence of unfair discrimination in the Medical School, however...
...Martin. The entire Peronista propaganda machine swung into action to have Casella expelled. As Minister of Education, and as chairman of the current Year of San Martin celebrations, Ivanissevich was ordered to schedule one hour of speechmaking in the schools to blot out Casella's insult to the liberator...
Ivan refused. An editorial in Eva Peron's own evening Noticias Gráficas announced the inevitable decision: "The authorities who control education have taken no step whatsoever [to counter] the terrific insult . . . Those whose task it is to look after the national culture and pUrity of national virtues have failed...