Word: affront
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...Affront to Culture. Although the announcer did not name the butt of his epithet, the Press-Propaganda office promptly hit Belgrano with a 48-hour advertising suspension for "expressions [which] constituted an affront to the nation's culture.and violated the fundamental principles of broadcasting, which today is the greatest vehicle for the diffusion of spiritual, social and moral culture." By the time Colonel Peron could return and lift the suspension, it had cost Belgrano $2,000 worth of advertising time...
...daughters were born, he ran dazedly away to hide, crying: "A man like me should be kept in jail." As any father would, he made a scene when control of his new daughters was taken from his hands, given to a Government-appointed board of guardians. It was another affront to his paternal dignity when the girls were kept in aseptic isolation in a fancy hospital-home of their own. For almost ten years Oliva Dionne had nursed a wounded pride. Last week he won a great victory...
Until last week a robber-baron-conscious faction in the State Department had persistently acted as if any cooperation with industry smacked of treason. And U.S. international oil companies have similarly regarded any Government interference in their policies as an affront-at least until they got into trouble abroad. Now there is at least basis for hope that the two can work together...
Hannegan, happy with a profitable law practice, did not want the new job. But when St. Louis newspapers screamed their editorial heads off ("An affront to thousands," said the Post-Dispatch), he determined to get it. He did, after having been investigated from hell to breakfast. Collector Bob Hannegan tried to make tax-paying as painless as possible: he eliminated long waiting lines, instructed his clerks in the rudiments of courtesy. He went to night school to study taxation...
...tree it got stuck in was right in front of Widener, an affront in itself. The mob gathered and got a stepladder, too short, and then a sort of holding folding ladder, long enough. But puss loved life in the leaves and expectorating on Yard Cops, a pleasant occupation withal. It probably felt hurt anyway, the nasty man in Psych said it should be strangled for Bio 2a. Then again, this one didn't seem mad, though it was expectorating...