Word: insultingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue. As Dulles himself said, sticking up for Portugal in Goa is not a part of our NATO commitments. Certainly, making a joint statement with a Portuguese governor was in no way obligatory. Appearing as the joint policy of Portugal and the United States, the statement seems a calculated insult to the Indians...
...Little Time. Twice the Cadets got their hands on the ball, and twice were stopped cold. Quarterback Don Holleder dropped back to fire a left-handed pass and Welsh added insult to injury by intercepting. In the shivering stands, fans warmed up by arguing that Coach Earl Blaik should never have ruined Holleder, an All-America end, by trying to teach him how to run a T-formation offense. In the second quarter. Blaik called Holleder to the bench to give him a last-minute cram course in football strategy...
...poor Margaret been through enough lately? Why this Koch cover [Nov. 7] to add insult to injury? Without her name being printed in the lower right-hand corner, guessing the identity of this insipid suburban debutante would be impossible. Accept ten demerits while I go on pulling at my smelling salts to get over the bad case of the "uglies" you have given...
Last March, Miller refused to speak at the University of Washington after the president of the school barred a series of talks of Oppenheimer. At that time Miller called the ban on Oppenheimer's talks "an egregrious insult to a great scholar" and "a flagrant violation of the fundamental principles of intellectual integrity and liberty of spirit upon which the education of a free society is erected...
...Wearing a light sport shirt and black trousers and carrying a heavy cane, Father James Milano of Pecos' Santa Rosa Catholic Church appeared, shouting, "Catholics-don't listen to these men. Go away from them!" But the braceros paid little attention. "This so-called crusade is an insult to the Catholic Church," he said later. "These Baptists consider the men pagans and even tell them they are. It's not so. It's an affront to come in and confuse these simple, uneducated people like that...