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Word: affronted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with undergraduates by eating one lunch and one dinner per week in a College dining hall. Moreover, he could seize the initiative for student contact at appropriate times. For example, when SDS challenged him to debate University complicity in the Vietnam War, Pusey apparently looked upon this as an affront to the dignity of his office. Had he instead accepted the challenge as an opportunity for valuable exchange of views, both he and the students might have gained some useful understanding of each other...

Author: By Parker Donham, | Title: An Analysis Of Pusey's Report | 2/7/1968 | See Source »

...local officials wouldn't want to tangle with Harvard Law professors over the issue. The point is, however, that the reason they would never crack down on the CRIMSON is because it doesn't deserve to be cracked down upon (a pity) but even if it did represent an affront to public mores, they wouldn't dare touch us because of the power behind...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Harvard Students on Trial | 1/29/1968 | See Source »

...election of an anti-Administration slate of delegates, without O'Neill's blessing, would constitute an affront to his leadership within the District...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: O'Neill Predicts Fight in Primary | 11/27/1967 | See Source »

According to those tests a publication is obscene if the dominant themes of the material taken as a whole show purient interest in sex, affront the contemporary standards of a community and are utterly without redeeming social value...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: Judge Bans Newest Avatar Issue; Appeal to Be Made to State Court | 11/9/1967 | See Source »

...mother is at stake," and many clergymen broadly define health to mean social as well as physical wellbeing. Last month the nation's Episcopal bishops approved limited legal abortion "with proper safeguards against abuse." The assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association has decried abortion laws as "an affront to human life and dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE DESPERATE DILEMMA OF ABORTION | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

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