Word: affront
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...spokesman for the Japanese guests said to Americans present: "The demonstration had not been intended as an affront to the Americans, but was intended to shame the Japanese present, who were associating with Americans 'in this time of national danger...
...indignation caused by this insult, is impossible to overcome. If there is any ground for this affront, we should repent it and overcome the indignation, but when there is not the slightest cause for the offense given us, it is quite impossible to overcome our indignation even if we wished...
Religion is a dangerous thing for any government to handle without deliency. In the present instance, besides risking a serious affront to all Christian nations operating non-sectarian schools within Turkish boundaries, the Assembly has been particularly careless of the toes of the French, whose prestige in the Near East has been great. When it is considered that the success of the Kemalist regime depends to a large extent upon the cooperation of other nations, particularly that of France, the expediency of this most recent display of religious enthusiasm is doubtful in the extreme...
...this sort by Congressional legislation, which must unavoidably appear somewhat highhanded, instead of by treaty, is hard to see. As it stands now, the amendment accomplishes little but an official enactment of the well known "Gentlemen's Agreement", and it has the disadvantage of seeming to be a gratuitous affront to a friendly nation...
Sentimentally, the idea of generation after generation of Harvard graduates returning their sons to Cambridge, already steeped in the classic legends and traditions of the University is very appealing. The student likes to imagine his own sons associating with those of his college friends. But it is rather an affront to Harvard men to assume that their progeny will not be well enough qualified to compete for admission on equal terms with everyone else...