Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself added a kind of insult to the Ikemen's political injuries. Asked at his news conference whether he would go over the heads of the budget-cutting Senate Republican leadership-California's Bill Knowland and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges-to work with the Eisenhower Republicans who are fighting for his program, Ike left his hard-pressed Capitol Hill defenders sadly disappointed: "I don't see how it is possible for any President to work with . . . the whole Republican group except through their elected leadership. This doesn't mean that in special cases...
...Confederate grey, whose platform was simple: "I am a hard-shell Baptist in religion. I believe in foot-washing, saving your seed potatoes and paying your honest debts." Invective .ran high in Arkansas politics, and little John McClellan had no way of telling the campaign flourish from the mortal insult. He took everything with deadly seriousness, spent sleepless nights after his heroes were attacked, blazingly denounced Jeff's enemies to audiences of two or three farmboys. Even Ike McClellan says: "I should have held off until John was a little older and could understand that our opponents didn...
...position to deliver effectively on all her economic propaganda offers. It was necessary to demonstrate to friendly nations, by act rather than by oral explanation, that U.S. tolerance of nations which felt it necessary to stay out of Western defensive alliances could not brook the kind of insult which Nasser presented in his repeated and accumulated unfriendly gestures . . . Nasser combined the right timing, the right geography, and the right order of magnitude for a truly major gambit in the cold...
...demanded, "must Harvard insult a large body of loyal alumni by inviting so dubious a character to lecture? My conscience will not allow me to continue financial support to the college while such an attitude prevails, nor can I continue to urge others...
Says WGBH's mild-mannered General Manager Parker Wheatley: "We are doing what commercial TV does not do. We don't insult people's intelligence and we don't scream at them. We try to govern ourselves by our three Rs: respect for the viewer, respect for the performer, and respect for the material itself...