Word: affront
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...urged the new prelates to help create "that new civilization, African and Christian." Later, in an address to the Uganda National Assembly, he reproved colonialism for "having let economic interests prevail over human considerations," and condemned "social situations based on racial discrimination" (an apparent reference to apartheid) as "an affront to the fundamental rights of the human person." On a visit to a poor suburban neighborhood, he declared that "rural Africa must be aided in developing its immense agriculture! possibilities. Local industries must replace the exploitation of raw materials. The African villager must become the master of his own destiny...
...stands still, and $100 is just a black gambling chip. This Las Vegas is a jet-age Sodom, a venal demimonde in which the greatest compliment that can be paid a man is to say that he has "juice" (influence in the right places). The city is the ultimate affront to taste...
...there no limit to the impudence of the Harvard Administration? President Pusey's Committtee of Five to investigate "possible misconduct" by faculty members in connection with recent events is an intolerable affront to the faculty and to the Harvard community at large. For an administration with as much blood on its own hands to launch such an attack is as ludicrous as it is contemptible. I suggest a Committee of Five (or 15 or 5,000) to investigate, repudiate, and discipline the Harvard Administration. David Griffiths Teaching Fellow in Physics
...affront to displaced persons to let New York City advance north of 14th street...
...intent to kill. Neither was charged with shooting the two officers. There was also another aspect of the case. Crockett had told Cahalan to appear personally in court, and Cahalan had not. "It is my considered opinion," said the judge, "that the prosecutor is in contempt of court. An affront to the court is always a serious matter, and this is a personal affront. I am persuaded it has racial overtones...