Word: affront
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...attack . . . we want it clearly understood that we don't listen to the bum." Regretted the Advertiser: if only Godfrey had visited the city when the mercury topped 100°, Montgomerians could be "doubly sure that he won't be back." Quick to take umbrage at this affront was Alabama's mountainous (6 ft. 8 in., 248 Ibs.) Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, who hates the Advertiser ("them lying newspapers") as much as it deplores him, reads no Alabama daily newspaper at all. To Godfrey from Kissin' Jim went a sympathetic letter of apology...
...Howard Hughes's Son of Sinbad, approved by the Hollywood Production Code but condemned by the Legion of Decency (even after re-editing) as "a serious affront to Christian and traditional standards of morality and decency," is already booked for several hundred theaters. Like Hughes's controversial French Line, it seems headed for a dual treatment: boycotting in heavily Catholic areas, nationwide sexsational advertising to convince the public that Sinbad is really a euphemism for Singood...
Laurette hated illness, and when Manners became ill with cancer, her answer was to drink more heavily. She took his death as a personal affront. Long after, she would say: "I could never understand why Hartley was taken away from me. I mean to speak to God about it when I see Him." Laurette fought her alcoholism by herself, and she finally conquered the ugly sides of her own character. She became kinder to others, frank with herself. It was a matter of pride with her not to give up alcohol entirely but to learn to control it. This...
...Governor Stoughton seemed to resent this affront. Although his spirit remained quite for some years, it had an insidious effect on the occupants of the new hall. The two historians Francis Parkman and William Hickling Prescott both later went blind, and Richard Henry Dana had to go off to sea to recover his eyesight. Even the burbling Oliver Wendell Holmes was daunted during his year of residence, managing to mutter only, "I am as cross as a wild-cat sometimes." Stoughton remained gloomy for years, inwardly boiling at the more light-hearted Hollis, where the Hasty Pudding Club...
...Tactical Affront. Ironically enough, it was under the prompting of Pope Urban VIII that Galileo began Dialogue on the Great World Systems, the masterpiece for which he was to be punished by the Inquisition. Warily checking his signals with the Pontiff. Galileo found that the Pope had only two reservations: i) the Copernican theory must be treated as a hypothesis, not as a certainty, and 2) since God was omnipotent and might create and govern the universe in any way He chose, Galileo was to put forth no proposition which "necessitated" God to operate in any one fixed way. Galileo...