Word: affront
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Khrushchev's own manners were no help. At a special performance of The Magic Flute by the Vienna State Opera, he dozed off to sleep, an amazing affront to opera-loving Viennese. And next day, when Communist-led workers in an automobile factory gave him the warmest reception of the trip, Nikita turned beaming braggart. "I am like the merchant who comes to the market with a bag full of goods," he said. "I can say to all of you: Wrap up all your goods and send them to us. We can buy all of Austria." Nikita was just...
...objections of doting Queen Mother Zaine, Hussein had tried to persuade the prince to go abroad for medical treatment. Finally last week, the palace cryptically announced that Mohammed would leave at the end of the month for a trip to the U.S., Canada and Britain (lest this seem an affront, the King named his younger brother viceroy during his own two-day absence from the country this week). Prince Mohammed still remains the immediate heir to a stouthearted young King whose perpetually threatened life is all that keeps alive the dynasty of the Hashemites...
...White Highlands are "white" because since 1939 only Kenya's 60,000 Europeans have been allowed to lease farms there-a state of affairs that has constituted a perennial political and psychological affront to the colony's 6,000,000 Africans. The new plan might ease the affront, but even its proponents did not argue that it would admit more than a sprinkling of non-Europeans into the Highlands. As the plan now stands, an African farmer who wanted to move into the Highlands would first have to get financing, then find a European farmer who was willing...
...life or profession puts him above the law, nor indeed above local responsibilities. While the life of the mind requires no intrusion from without, the intellectual still is in his private life and in the actual exercise of his profession an individual man; and it is nothing but an affront to good common sense for him to insist that his profession precludes commitment to the local (institutional) conditions of his own personal--indeed professional--existence. The matter is made worse by the fact that the typically abstract mind is not always capable of local commitments and tends often to treat...
...quite confident we can get the bill out of committee by offering this compromise," Senator Clark asserted. The compromise, under present circumstances, probably represents the most feasible way to eliminate the affidavit, which President Pusey has deemed "a direct personal affront" to the college faculties and students...