Word: affront
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...black voice from the white cell was a perfect affirmation, and an affront to the cops--it rang with contempt for them. And then it was brave, and so inspired bravery. There was sudden intense applause, and a thunderous burst of song...
Dallas was shocked. Wrote the Dallas Times Herald in a Page One editorial: "Dallas has been disgraced. There is no other way to view the storm-trooper actions of last night's frightening attack on Adlai Stevenson." Texas Governor John Connally called the affair "an affront to common courtesy and decency." And Mayor Earle Cabell pointed out that the demonstrators were "not our kind of folks...
...this week and be limited to four weeks, cried that the motion's defeat was a "crushing blow" to the tax measure. Other Senators thought that the motion had been no more to begin with than an ill-conceived effort to pressure Finance Chairman Harry Byrd and an affront to the chairman's traditional prerogative of scheduling hearings. At week's end Byrd had yet to set a date for public hearings...
...Seneca themselves, they responded to the affront with the utmost dignity. They held a moving ceremony at the site of the dam, a kind of funeral service for their land...
...senses that he is not wanted and takes refuge in surliness-an affront to the Harmsworths' philosophy of uplift. "I never think of death!" declares Dora. "I am a life-lover if there ever...