Word: insultingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...represents another weakening of public education as a whole, an official discouragement of the compulsory public school system. With one hand the state government supports a free school establishment, while with its other it is paying those citizens who do not wish to use it. Such provisions insult, if they do not impair, the rights of Negroes; they prolong hopes for avoiding ultimate integration in that state where it can be achieved with least agony, and they weaken the preservation of free public education throughout the south...
...elaborate Greek insult to editorial pencil wielders. Rhypokondylos, used in a fragment of Plato Comicus (sth century B.C.) and meaning "with dirty knuckles," can also, by a slight linguistic stretch, be taken to mean "with dirty pencils," since a later Greek word for pencil is kondylion...
...insult, the University requires each voyaging scholar to be acompanied by a (male) proctor, and every time Nature calls one of the weaker sex, she emerges from the giant portals of New Lecture Hall with an escort...
MEBAC, which has already agreed to give the CDF full use of the theatre during the 1959 summer season, earlier suggested that the Wellesley group share the site in 1960, according to the Group 20 spokesman. He called this plan "no compromise, but an insult." Members of MEBAC "implied incorrectly that Group 20 is not in the same league with the Cambridge Drama Festival, professionally speaking," the spokesman continued...
...Miyoshi. She looked up at the tall, uniformed foreign sailors and discovered that she liked them. But the discovery was not made without guilt. Miyoshi says: "You can't look at eyes. It's not feminine. You should look down. It's not really insult, it's not pretty." Her English-speaking brother brought three of the Americans to the Umeki home as guests. There were Edward Giannini, a clarinet-playing T-4 in the 417th Army Service Forces Band, Sergeant Joseph Bardner, and a third soldier whose name the Umeki family never learned. They knew...