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Word: insultingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...angrily, Nasser's newspaper Al Gumhuria retorted: "Suppose we make not one but a thousand museums to commemorate the horrible attack on us-what business is that of London's?" Stiffening his upper lip, Selwyn Lloyd took the view that Nasser could not have known of the insult in advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUEZ: The Museum | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...already taken a ten-month leave from the studio to skindive for gold, is ready to take another. Wayde Preston ($500 a week) walked off the set of Colt .45, signed up as a partner in an airplane charter service. "Worst of all," he grumbled, "is the weekly insult-the paycheck. Heck, I can make more money laying bricks than acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Unhappy People--with Spurs | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...funds, nor receive the affidavits directly, its involvement in the NSF program is unmistakable. Unless the Corporation follows its NDEA decision with an equally vigorous stand on NSF, Harvard's policy will lack consistency. Whatever the form of administration, all disclaimer affidavits erode freedom of belief and are an insult to the academic community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Little, Too Late | 11/18/1959 | See Source »

Last week the Soviet press launched a campaign against tipping in restaurants. "Restaurant employees," said the magazine Literature and Life, "must be made to realize that they forfeit their human dignity by accepting tips, which are an insult to those who give and those who take." Asked whether there was one waiter in Moscow who would turn down a tip nowadays, Nikolai Fedorovich Zavyalov, head of the Moscow Restaurant Trust, sighed: "Not one." Zavyalov confessed that a recent experiment of adding on a 4% service charge in Moscow restaurants (6% at the posh Praga) had failed to stop the under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Old Tribute | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...listen to the lecture?" The real trouble, said another male flunkee, is that "college is the only time we have in our lives for romancing." The only people who remained unperturbed by the situation were the girls themselves. True to their reputation as the deadlier sex, they had added insult to injury by running away with the highest grades in many key exams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Deadlier than the Male | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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