Word: affront
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Critics called him "snoop" and "transom-peeper." One starlet angrily described his visit as a "personal affront." Ronald Reagan, president of the Screen Actors Guild, righteously insisted that "Hollywood is pretty much a goes-to-bed-with-the-chickens town." The press joined in with a delighted chorus of catcalls...
When Feeney asked the Council for immediate approval of his proposals, Mulholland declared that he would consider such an action an affront against himself and any organization which Feeney did not represent...
...thing, he is 100-proof tireless. He suspects that the average man gets too much sleep, and claims that four or five hours a night is about right for himself. He is seldom, if ever, sick. He considers the onset of a common cold a personal affront, and has a theory that the way to lick it is to stay up and fight it. These attributes have had an astonishing effect on Boyd's staff. They may not quite have Boyd's bounce at the end of a 14-to 1 6-hour closing day, but they usually...
...editorial pages. Snapped California's Representative Richard Nixon: "Disgusting . . . Here he is serving notice in advance that he will not accept the decision of even the Supreme Court." Illinois' Les Arends, the Republican whip, declared that Acheson's continued presence in the Cabinet was "an affront to the nation." California's Republican Senator William Knowland said he would move to withhold all State Department appropriations. Said Georgia's James C. Davis, a Democrat: "How long can Americans be expected to show respect for Acheson when he hugs to his bosom; those who have betrayed their...
...Russia's actions against Yugoslavia., the declaration said: "Every people has the right to self-determination . . . without any economic, political or military pressures or interferences on the part of other states . . . Every state has the duty ... to curb all activities calculated to spread hatred toward other peoples, to affront their honor or offend the dignity of and slander, other states...