Word: affront
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...They found it. Two-fisted Aggie Underwood, 55, city editor of Hearst's Herald-Express (and only woman city editor of a U.S. metropolitan paper), decided that there must have been some love letters. She called Mickey Cohen, who took Johnny Stompanato's death as a personal affront. Cohen's hoods raided Johnny's expensive Los Angeles apartment, found the letters. The Mick turned them over to Aggie. In a few more hours, Lana and Johnny were splashed on the world's front pages for a second performance...
...call for a neutral Germany (TIME, Jan. 20) reflects far more than a mere difference of political opinion. Acheson regards the strong Germany policy as his own-hammered out in the late 1940s over Kennan's opposition-and regards Kennan's attack more as a personal affront than an attack on Successor John Foster Dulles. Still silent in this Democratic debate over foreign policy fundamentals: Adlai Stevenson, who despite earlier, well-publicized intimations of thought in foreign policy, has thus far ducked all chances to make himself heard because he thinks the whole dispute is intemperate...
...them Army General Georges Buch-alet-to Tunis with a private message for Bourguiba. Bourguiba took the general's presence as an implied threat, coldly refused to receive him. After a two-day impasse the two French envoys, their message undelivered, flew back to Paris. "An affront to France," cried Paris newspapers...
Even more unlikely was genial Jim Hagerty's hopping-mad reaction to the column. Though Buchwald's jest was actually a spoof at the press (which took it as such, and laughed heartily), Press Secretary (and onetime New York Timesman) Hagerty took it as a personal affront, bawled out the Herald Tribune by telephone, barred Columnist Buchwald from all future briefings. Said he later: "I was so mad I could cry. The President read it and laughed. This made me madder. The President said: 'Simmer down, Jim, simmer down.' " Instead, the upsimmering Hagerty swore that...
...Klux Klan pamphlet. To drop this book from the textbook list is a shortsighted educational policy. Surely this acknowledged classic presents life in terms universal enough to out-weigh its incidental provincial slants. Let the latter be considered in historical terms and not taken as a contemporary affront...