Word: affront
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Indeed they cannot. As Coke discovered to its sorrow, fiddling with the formula for the 99-year-old beverage was an affront to patriotic pride and perhaps more. "Some people felt that a sacred symbol had been tampered with," said Robert Antonio, a University of Kansas sociologist. Glenwood Davis, marketing manager for Coca-Cola Bottling in Roanoke, Va., said that he received a letter from a woman who said, "There are only two things in my life: God and Coca-Cola. Now you have taken one of those things away from...
...South Africa as a producer of precious metals and an anti-Communist bastion. Last week's statements from Washington not only omitted all mention of such considerations, but were delivered in a tougher tone than in the past. Secretary of State George Shultz described apartheid as "an affront to everything we believe in" and viewed South Africa's present policies as doomed. "The only question to be determined," he said, "is how [the end] will come about." The U.S. believes the only solution is for black-white negotiations, said the Secretary. "It cannot be done if repression continues...
...renters, those consumers of hotel porn, have to be red-staters. Which is why, among all the cries in favor of traditional values and against naughty TV, you haven't seen many county sheriffs or G-men forcing the old smut peddler do a perp walk. Porn doesn't affront contemporary community standards. It is a contemporary community standard...
Students who wish to improve the University can do so by contributing to Senior Gift and by contacting those in charge of the endowment. But to attack the generous spirit of giving and the causes that define Senior Gift is an affront to future generations of Harvard students, who will want to know why their predecessors took a stand against their own classmates, financial aid, and a better Harvard...
...wasn't mandatory to die young, but it couldn't hurt. Jean Harlow succumbed to kidney disease at 26, after starring for Þve years as MGM's cheekiest blond. In this 1933 ensemble comedy, Harlow, billed fourth, steals the show as Wallace Beery's conniving wife. An affront to the society swells she meets, she was catnip to amass audience who saw her as their stand-in, with a sailor's mouth and a heart of the purest brass...