Word: insultingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insult. . . . I predict that it is the straw that will break the back of the unfair and inequitable wages and prices camel of the Government." The speaker was the usually conservative David B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. His subject: the decision of a special railway emergency board, affecting 400,000 members of his and four other operating railroad unions...
...Hale Bros, found itself stuck. With San Francisco jammed with war work, it had to move into Penney's old quarters at a still higher rental ($120,000) than Lurie's top price to them. To add insult to injury, Penney's nondescript store site was hard by San Francisco's largest department store, The Emporium. Hale's only consolation: the hope (and expense) of building a brand-new store on another Market Street corner after...
Punishment? Public indignation bubbled up in Detroit. Congressman Paul W. Shafer called the verdict a "farce," a "travesty" and "disgustingly inadequate." The Detroit Free Press called it a "white wash" and "an insult to the fighting forces." The Detroit Times said "it will smell to heaven," and went back 131 years to find a local parallel of military shame when "the coward Hull surrendered De troit to the British without even swinging a punch...
Seyss-Inquart stormed, threw hundreds of doctors into jail. For weeks there was almost no medical service in The Netherlands. Then the Nazis, fearful of epidemics, gave in. To save face, the Nazis got the doctors to sign a statement that they had meant no "insult" to Seyss-Inquart...
Victory or no, the fiendish Freshman wanted to add insult to injury. So, strictly from nonconformity, he donned a pair of shorts. His barelegged strides may have brought ohs and ahs from the Radcliffe girls but the only noticeable Yard Cop comment was "ahem!" plus a quick nab for "indecent exposure." So it was defeat again, but the little man still has a few more tricks up, his sleeve, just you wait...