Word: affront
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became Secretary of the Navy. An ardent Dry, he prohibited liquor on board Navy ships. He outraged officers by shaking hands with seamen. He tried to make sailors wear pajamas. In his black string tie and his flat-brimmed, North Carolina planter's hat, he was a walking affront to the ramrod dignity of the admirals...
...Leske, retaliation by the enemy is a personal affront, an outrage and probably illegal. A journalist told him that the Dutch had fired on descending Nazi parachutists: "It's a rotten, beastly business, shooting at defenseless parachutists. Typically Dutch. I think it isn't according to international law, anyway." Later, when the Nazi fliers again find "roads that are lousy with people"-"So they are civilians?" writes Leske, "Well, either...
Incitement to Sin? The U.S. taxpayer is willing to swallow a camel-size defense tax, but a gnat-size affront will still make him gag. Such a gnat was the rule requiring husbands & wives to file joint returns, in the proposed 1941 tax bill. The House Ways and Means Committee hoped thereby to raise $323,000,000 in extra revenue. But a wave of public resentment against compulsory joint returns has swept down on the House. To many a defender of women's rights, the rule looks like a devilish device to sell married women down the river into...
...south had a reputation worse than any bush country in Africa; that a dozen explorers had tried, but none had gotten through; that no white man had ever made the trip; that this jungle was an insuperable barrier to the highway. To Schoolmaster Tewkesbury the word "insuperable" was an affront to Americanism...
...affront to Democracy when 85 members of a student body of 8500 take it upon themselves to define the will of the American people in order to serve their own questionable ends." And it is in the use of the word "questionable" that the major fallacy of the argument appears. These ends are questionable to whom? Obviously, it is to William M. Wood. But who has entrusted to William M. Wood a discrimination so absolute that his views of the just and unjust shall be accepted as sovereign? Who is he to define the words "patriotic", "subversive", "anti-American...