Word: affront
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Around him swirl a vast collection of characters: the eccentric genius in grain futures, the Texas oil man (named Tanker!), blackmailers, thieves, underground Communists, wives, children -and mistresses, mistresses, mistresses. There is no plot, only the fitfully told story of Jules' inevitable catastrophe. Mostly to affront the pretensions of a speculator he despises, Jules bets on the pound shortly before it collapses. Though there is still time to hedge, Bertillon of Bertillon goes down with his pride...
...also attract new housing projects for guards and motels for visitors. It was, residents often said, like "leading the pig into the parlor." Architects, historical societies and garden clubs bombarded state and federal officials with indignant letters. If the prison were built, said one, it would be "an affront to the past and an insult to the future." The area around such important houses as Boswell's Tavern, a supposed haunt of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Patrick Henry, required protection and preservation...
Police estimates of the crowd ranged from 75,000 to 100,000--by far the largest rally of McGovern's campaign. The enthusiastic reception stirred the candidate to a bitter denunciation of the Nixon Administration, which he labeled "the biggest moral affront to the standards of our country of any administration in the history of this nation...
...gang war is really a private affair -any killing, even of criminals by criminals, is an affront to the community -but most people do not become indignant until innocent bystanders are involved. The latest incident occurred in the Neopolitan Noodle, a restaurant on Manhattan's Upper East Side that is frequented by members of the Colombo gang. The Gallo clan, bent on revenging the assassination of Crazy Joey Gallo (TIME, April 17), began staking out the restaurant in hope of catching the Colombos off guard. One night recently, a Gallo spy spotted four Colombo men gathered...
...boss (Eddie Egan, late of The French Connection) takes this as an affront. Besides, the Kansas City boys are skimming off a healthy slice of the corporate profits. So he dispatches Nick Devlin (Lee Marvin) to teach Kansas City a little respect...