Word: insultingly
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...week left Emperor Haile Selassie virtually stripped of his absolute power. For the first time since Selassie, 82, came to power 44 years ago, government-controlled newspapers published letters and articles critical of the monarchy. One particularly vitriolic magazine accused the Emperor of "defecating on his people." As additional insult, the military forcibly entered Selassie's palace in Addis Ababa and arrested the commander of the Imperial Bodyguard. Most important, the Armed Forces Coordinating Committee, which dictates policy to Prime Minister Michael Imru's five-week-old civilian government, announced that it was abolishing four offices through which...
When Harvard took over Radcliffe's academic responsibilities back in World War II, it was a simple decision--it was the only financially pragmatic one. But in 1969, the situation was different. Radcliffe was foundering financially and--insult to injury--was calling for total merger, the logical conclusion to a relationship which had been growing increasingly closer and which had been presumed at the inception of Radcliffe. This time around, Harvard could not see that it had much to gain financially--despite the changes in values and career opportunities that women are now experiencing Harvard administrators are quick to point...
...Gross Insult to Justice
...retain our individual rights as well as law and order. Now that President Nixon has resigned rather than subject this country to the trauma of a trial in the Senate, to want to go even further and offer amnesty or "off the record" equivalents would be a gross insult to our system of justice...
Although the leading actress in this one-horse farce is Helen Hayes, a nice old lady who lives in a firehouse, the real star is a car called Herbie. He is a Volkswagen Beetle who, befitting a Disney Studios creation, does wheelstands when people insult him or transports them to trysting places as the mood takes...