Word: insultingly
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...NIXON'S CONTRIBUTION TO DÉTENTE. Frankly, it bores me very much to hear Nixon say he ended the era of confrontation and started an era of détente. That's an insult to Eisenhower, who deserves much of the credit for the Austrian State Treaty of 1955, and to Kennedy, who brought about the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963. Besides, Nixon didn't even begin the present round of détente; Willy Brandt did with his Ostpolitik...
...held ten of the 16 Cabinet posts in the late Georges Pompidou's government. But Giscard named a renegade Gaullist, former Interior Minister Jacques Chirac, as his Premier; although the new President needs Gaullist support to get his programs approved by the National Assembly, he added injury to insult by giving only four of the remaining 15 portfolios to orthodox Gaullists...
...students* from 40 countries had considerable facility in Chinese before they arrived. One Canadian, for example, is a specialist in Tang poetry; others were in postgraduate studies. Thus they feel that the study materials, which frequently consist of official tracts and xenophobic diatribes from the Chinese press, are an insult to their intelligence...
...suggest that healing in the military is somehow immoral for a doctor is ridiculous. Is it less moral to treat a wounded airman or soldier than a civilian? I hardly think so. To even suggest it is an insult to the medical profession's vow to heal all who suffer. Mark F. Cancian '73 2/Lt. USMC
...final run, to add insult to injury, came on a double steal as Driscoll, who reached on a single, drew the throw to second and Thomas crossed the plate to make...