Word: affront
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that I know that TIME is funny I'll not have to affront my family with profanity as I read it. I'll laugh if it kills me. I'd like, however, to recommend the Book of Revelation to Reader Gibeaut as a humorous story if TIME is funny. How he must laugh over the subtle humor in the small print in an insurance contract...
...with a quarter of the vehemence with which they denounced legalized adultery [i.e., divorce and remarriage]. But one was easy and the other was not. To upset legalized cheating, the church must tackle the Government in its very stronghold; while to cope with intellectual corruption she will have to affront all those who exploit it-the politician, the press, and the more influential part of her own congregations. Therefore, she will acquiesce in a definition of morality so one-sided that it has deformed the very meaning of the word to sexual offences. And yet, if every man living were...
...concentrates "unprecedented control in the hands of a man who today can only say, 'they do not need American men'. The bill is a direct affront to the American people who have so often demonstrated their desire for peace" and can be regarded "in no other light than as a declaration of war and as establishing a military dictatorship...
...Mills Brothers-Louis Armstrong ballad of Federal loafing that seemed to affront everyone except those who like to hear a song well swung, raised enough attention to have to be withdrawn (TIME, June...
...positions up & down the State, but the Legislature is traditionally Republican. Last winter, the bloc of anti-Hague Republicans who call themselves the Clean Government League squeezed through the Assembly a bill to make voting machines mandatory in Hudson County. Hague took this bill as a personal affront-which it was. The bill was blocked in the Senate, which has 16 Republican members, five Democrats...