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...final gesture of solidarity with an ally, the navy officially apologized to the U.S. for spoiling its party. "We did not intend to insult much-appreciated goodwill to Siam," said the navy, "but we were compelled by patriotic motives...
...Kitty MacCann of Tullamore, Ireland, playing with sun-blistered arms swathed in bandages, the British women's amateur golf championship, on a hilly, gorse-infested course; in Broadstone, England. Complained U.S. Champion Beverly Hanson, after losing in the quarterfinals: "It was an insult to our intelligence to ask us to play on that terrible course. It was a nightmare...
...through a bill forbidding the government to grant an oil concession to anyone without legislative permission. Since this was aimed at the Russians, who were trying to extract an oil concession in northern Iran, the Iranian Communists called Mossadeq a British agent. He never got over the insult...
...began, known as the "Rotten Cabbage Rebellion," between the students and the food they were being served. Among other incidents, this conflict once found 600 grains of tartar emetic applied to the College's morning coffee (with disastrous results), and a students suspended after he "did publickly in Hall insult the authority of the College by hitting one of the Officers with a potatoe." By 1816 the expanding collection of books and apparatus squeezed out the Commons to the newly-erected University Hall, and the whole second floor became the library, the old chapel downstairs became a recitation room...
...veterans arranged a new memorial service to repair Mayor Coëne's insult. The Communists organized a counterdemonstration, but 200 Republican Guards and 300 soldiers, sent to Montataire by the government, saw to it that the Reds did not interfere with the ceremony. In the cemetery, the Depestel family and French veterans laid bouquets of violets on Gaston's grave...