Word: affront
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...scientists. It seems that the National Atomic Research, Spaceship Testing and Information Bureau (NARSTI) wants to test its new moonship with a guinea pig before sending up a crew of expensively trained cosmonauts. He must be a human guinea pig, because a guinea-pig guinea pig would be an affront to the animal-doting British public. NARSTI's choice is a cheerful clod (Kenneth More) who has been fired from his job as a lab animal for common-cold researchers because he is too healthy to interest any germs. More is set to training with the cosmonauts...
...have noted your account of President Quadros' meeting with Ambassador Berle. In view of the great respect and wide circulation enjoyed by your review I feel that as one of four persons present I should inform you that story is entirely incorrect. No incident or affront of any nature occurred during the interview. Foreign Minister Arinos was not even present...
...rescue, "should the American people and the American Government let that kind of spleen be poured upon one who has given his whole life to freedom?" Connecticut's burly Tom Dodd, a conservative Democrat and tough antiCommunist, joined in. Welch's judgments, said he, are "an affront to decency and intelligence...
...those of us all who have difficulty plunging into the holiday spirit, Life has undertaken to recreate the old Civil War atmosphere; to bring back those romantic days of busty belles, dashing Confederate heroes, and sleepy, loyal slaves who resented the Northern affront to Massah's rule. In addition to a grandiose series of syrupy, nostalgic articles, the editors present a "War Game" called 1863. It comes with a board that folds right out of the magazine, and later will be put on the market by Parker Bros., Inc., manufacturers of Monopoly...
...Berle, chief of Kennedy's Latin American task force, spread on his recent South American swing. Specifically, Berle sought to line up support for a collective diplomatic and commercial quarantine of Cuba by all members of the Organization of American States. In Brazil Berle ran into a personal affront from President Janio Quadros (see below), who is aggressively determined to show how neutral he intends Brazil to be in international affairs. When Latin America's biggest nation refused to line up with the U.S. against Castro, the prospect of others doing so was vastly dimmed...