Word: affronted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although I am not a Buddhist, I interpreted your article on the subject as an unregenerate evaluation of the antinomies of a great religion. The adroitness of this article does not, in my opinion, redeem it from constituting an affront to the exponents of this faith. Antinomianism is not peculiar to Buddhism, but is rather an inherent pitfall in any religion. The deeper the spiritual insight one attains, the more dramatic the manifestations of this particular pitfall might become...
...very end, Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker and his Conservatives fought bitterly against the maple-leaf flag, arguing that it was an affront to Mother Britain to replace the Red Ensign* that had flown for 19 years. Yet Pearson, head of an unsteady minority government desperately trying to unify Canada's divided English and French-speaking populations, persisted and finally had to shut off debate by invoking closure for the first time since...
...needs an enemy so badly that the nearest friend will do. His true target in these plays is the well-intentioned liberal intellectual with namby-pamby notions of cozy, overnight, instant brotherhood. The Toilet's depiction of Negroes as semi-cretinous urban cannibals is calculated to affront precisely those white racial ameliorators who passionately argue that Negroes are not like that...
...calculated act of educational self-mutilation on the part of the governments involved. As U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said angrily last week: "Resort to riot and violence against foreign missions strikes at the heart of the system of diplomatic intercourse. Book burning is a direct affront to knowledge and a denial of the long, slow progress of mankind...
Bows & Arrows. Clearly, none of the prelates intended to affront the Pope. Just as clearly, their vote indicated that the council does have a mind of its own, and that the bishops cannot be satisfied with platitudes. The schema was denounced in language so harsh that the moderator of the discussion pleaded with the bishops to be more temperate. Irish-born Bishop Daniel Lamont of Rhodesia, for example, complained: "We needed fire and they give us a candle. We wanted powerful weapons to do the battles of the Lord and they give us bows and arrows...