Word: affront
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Kaishek; the President's affront to Chiang through his order "neutralizing" Formosa; MacArthur's own flying visit to Formosa, and the Administration's alarm that this would be construed as U.S. acceptance of Chiang...
Last came the nomination of Carroll Switzer to an Iowa judgeship. Switzer was the Democrats' defeated 1948 candidate for governor, and Harry Truman had not consulted Iowa's Senator Guy Gillette about appointing him to the bench. "A personal affront," said Gillette. Senators -who might want the favor returned some day-shouted their support of Gillette, rebuffing Harry Truman for the fourth time in one afternoon...
...Italy last week, sport fans roared of an affront to national dignity. In Paris, the French Foreign Ministry tendered its regrets to the Italian embassy. At week's end, the French Tour director announced a slight detour: the last half of the race will bypass Italy...
Surveys among the nation's 5,863,000 TV set owners show that their moviegoing has fallen off by 20 to 72%-even though TV entertainment is still largely an affront to the eye. What will happen to the theaters as the owners multiply and TV shows improve? The thought has driven groups of movie exhibitors into a frenzy of forced optimism and "showmanship,"* and their leaders have felt called upon to urge them not to sell their theaters...
...Communist, "to the best of my knowledge and belief, he was not," said Field. Next day Tydings moved to cite Browder and Field for contempt. Apart from the relevance of questions or constitutional guarantees against selfincrimination, the conduct of these witnesses, Tydings declared, "has 'been an affront to the dignity of the Senate...