Word: affront
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Even so, Nixon's failure to advise Congress before he decided upon the Cambodian mission seemed a gratuitous affront. Led by William Fulbright, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee immediately requested a meeting with the President. Nixon responded by inviting the committee over to the White House late one afternoon last week; but he also issued invitations to the less prestigious, less dovish House Foreign Affairs Committee, and scheduled an earlier meeting with the House and Senate Armed Services committees as well. Fulbright and other Senators such as Vermont's George Aiken had planned a confrontation. Nixon deftly transformed it into...
...rationale, of course, was that the Faculty should not enter into "polities" as a corporate body and that their loyalty should be first and foremost to academic pursuits. No doubt they felt this is a noble stand, but- in the reality of the present crisis- it is a shabby affront to those who feel that bringing to an end this country's wholesale destruction of human life takes precedence over all other business. Fighting the acts of violence being committed in the name of the Free World is hardly "politics" in the usual sense...
...members of Congress, each having one vote, make the decision. As it is now, the House of Representatives alone decides, with each state delegation having exactly one vote. If the 1968 election had gone to the House, Alaska would have had as much voice as California-a clear affront to majority rule...
...lyrically eccentric speech was met with silence by an audience of what must have been tightlipped students and professors who seemed incredulous that the talk was witty, ingenious blasphemy-and nothing more. The misdirected arguments over the nouvelle vague in cinema, for a last example, almost constitute an affront to the cinematic art. It is no wonder some of us cannot distinguish between a Smoky Link and a knish...
...Peter Bessell, a Liberal from Cornwall. "BOAC says such a project will earn dollars for Britain, but some might argue that prostitution does the same thing." Kenneth Lewis, a Conservative from Rutland and Stamford, threatened to take the matter before the House of Commons and treat it as an affront to British maidenhood. "A British girl," he thundered, "is perfectly capable of making her own dates-and so are American men." The Sunday Times chided: "There are visions of the flower of English womanhood being sold into lusty American servitude for the benefit of our sordid balance of payments. Poor...