Word: affront
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...with a quarter of the vehemence with which they denounced legalized adultery [i.e., divorce and remarriage]. But one was easy and the other was not. To upset legalized cheating, the church must tackle the Government in its very stronghold; while to cope with intellectual corruption she will have to affront all those who exploit it-the politician, the press, and the more influential part of her own congregations. Therefore, she will acquiesce in a definition of morality so one-sided that it has deformed the very meaning of the word to sexual offences. And yet, if every man living were...
...concentrates "unprecedented control in the hands of a man who today can only say, 'they do not need American men'. The bill is a direct affront to the American people who have so often demonstrated their desire for peace" and can be regarded "in no other light than as a declaration of war and as establishing a military dictatorship...
...Mills Brothers-Louis Armstrong ballad of Federal loafing that seemed to affront everyone except those who like to hear a song well swung, raised enough attention to have to be withdrawn (TIME, June...
...positions up & down the State, but the Legislature is traditionally Republican. Last winter, the bloc of anti-Hague Republicans who call themselves the Clean Government League squeezed through the Assembly a bill to make voting machines mandatory in Hudson County. Hague took this bill as a personal affront-which it was. The bill was blocked in the Senate, which has 16 Republican members, five Democrats...
...policeman who does not think such snidery sidesplitting is New York City's Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine. Commissioner Valentine asked: "Why do so many members of the force, when serving a summons, act as though the violation were a personal affront? The violator does not offend you, so why cuss them and bawl them out? I always avoid sarcasm because I always resented it when I was a patrolman and a superior officer directed...