Word: affront
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...Majority Leader Mike Mansfield quietly spread the word that he would seek a favorable vote in the Democratic steering committee, which makes committee assignments. At this point, Byrd, who steadfastly opposes medicare and the Kennedy tax program, let conservative Senators know that he considered the packing plan a personal affront. One of his calls went to his good friend Richard Russell of Georgia, who predictably viewed the plan as an outright assault upon the traditions of the Senate and upon his Southern colleague. On such issues, Russell can usually deliver the entire Southern conservative vote. Nearly all of the Republican...
...political observers in the national press have already accepted the fact that Teddy's candidacy in Massachusetts is seriously damaging the political aspirations of more worthy Democratic Congressional candidates throughout the country. Such a noted Presidential admirer as James Reston has Teddy's candidacy "is widely regarded as an affront and a presumption." Reston concludes that "it is likely to cost the President more votes in the Senate than Teddy will ever give him." And justly so; for the very fact of Ted Kennedy's candidacy is degrading to the United States Senate...
...University in New York City, the Cambridge club completely by-passed Providence, out of fear. As a last ditch effort, the Brown club is attempting to make contact with this elusive semi-potential foe by contacting them through the CRIMSON. We have taken this whole affair as a terrible affront, the Brown club having established Ivy Ieague tiddlywinks in 1793. In the first match, our team, led by Roger Williams Brown, easily defeated John Harvard's bastard grand-nephew, Rufus. Our predominance in the field has not been contested since...
...candidate for high public office has an obligation to debate the issues publicly with his opponents. In the past two years, television has become an accepted means for performing this electoral function. Kennedy's consistent refusal to debate the other major candidates is an affront to the people of Massachusetts and a poor recommendation indeed for election to the Senate...
...Teddy's candidacy is an affront to the Senate. The members like to regard the Senate as an institution of some distinction-and membership in it as an honor earned through some measure of achievement and service. They do not like the spectacle of the President...