Word: affront
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...that would be a fitting consolation for Jimmy Carter, whose presidency became haunted by the hostage issue. His early restraint in handling Iran's affront to America's pride had at first earned him widespread praise for coolness under fire. But as months passed, public patience in the U.S. ebbed. The fiery failure in an Iranian desert of a U.S. military rescue mission symbolized the nation's frustration. In the end, the lingering hostage affair did much to ensure Carter's election defeat in November...
...Sinatra. It was bad enough, Safire wrote, for Reagan to turn to Sinatra for fund-raising help and to put him in charge of Inaugural entertainment, but for an Attorney General to involve himself with "a man obviously proud to be close to notorious hoodlums is the first deliberate affront to propriety of the Reagan Administration...
...their part, the Greens, who plan to have more children, apologized for any "affront" to the court and asked forgiveness. Judge Francis Keating gave them just that. He found them guilty, but passed no sentence. Declaring the case "exceptional," Keating said: "Any further punishment beyond what has already been endured would certainly be unfair...
Speaking at the rally, which was organized by school administrators and Black student leaders, college President John W. Chandler called the cross-burning "deeply disturbing" and "an affront to the fundamental values and commitments of Williams College...
...Whether this was a prank or a more serious, racially-motivated incident, the cross-burning is an affront to all Williams students," senior Stephen Willard said yesterday...