Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shadow of insult fell," said Du Bois in his essay, "A Negro Student At Harvard At The End of The Nineteenth Century," of being mistaken for a servant. Turned away from local barbershops, refused lodging by families who habitually hosted white students and excluded from various activities such as the Glee Club, Du Bois focussed on academic achievement while coping with the many facets of on campus racism...
...attention to all the other, harder-working and no doubt more productive interns whose hair is short and necklines are high? The feminist idea, as I understood it, was that we go to work to get a job done, and unless that job is lap dancing, it's an insult to be judged by one's body parts and willingness to share them with others...
Junior Erika Lundquist scored the first goal of the contest, followed by freshman Mairead McKendry. Lundquist snapped another biscuit in for the third tally and senior Sara Cable's netter in the third period was the Crimson's final insult against the Crusaders...
...featuring a hucksterish emu rancher who promotes the ostrich-like bird as "the pork of the future." The ad never calls emu meat unsafe, but Fort Worth attorney John Scott says its portrayal of the birds as disreputable has dealt his clients a hard blow. In these litigious times, insult an ugly, flightless, 6-ft.-tall bird, and you may have to answer for yourself in court...
...rare these days for a movie not to insult your intelligence. For every 50 brain-numbing flicks like Twister, Volcano or Con Air, we might be blessed with one smart film like Pulp Fiction or Fargo. Hollywood is now in the business for the masses--"The audiences want earthquake, volcano, flood, tornado and asteroid movies, so that's what we'll give them," the studio execs smugly think to themselves...