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Word: affront (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...U.S.S.R.'s big mistake is not that it has offended us. It has offended a nation with a large Muslim population; it has offended Islam. Let the Muslim people take the lead in dealing with the Soviet affront...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 4, 1980 | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...about diarrhea," says the earnest pitchman. T shirts, sweatshirts and bumper stickers proclaim their aggressive little editorials. Some are mildly funny (a woman's T shirt, for example, that says so MANY MEN, so LITTLE TIME). But often they are crude with a faintly alarming determination to affront, even sometimes to menace. They are filled with belligerent scatology. Something or other always SUCKS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Back to Reticence! | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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