Word: affronted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head of state. Oriol's kidnaping, still unsolved, was claimed by GRAPO, which is demanding amnesty for the remaining political prisoners in return for Oriol's freedom. Sure enough, GRAPO also identified itself as the grabber of Villaescusa. The kidnaping of the prestigious general was an unprecedented affront to Spain's powerful military, but its leadership appeared in no mood to retaliate outside the law. Said Army Chief of Staff Lieut. General Jose Vega Rodriguez: "The army has demonstrated that it is nonpolitical, calm and confident...
Carter had no sooner issued his proclamation-and signed Executive Order No. 1-than he was vehemently attacked, both by those who thought him too soft and those who thought he was too tough. The American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars claimed that the decision was an affront to American fighting men who had done their duty by serving in Viet Nam. Carter's act, Senator Barry Goldwater declared, was "the most disgraceful thing that a President has ever done...
...back as the 1930s. Party Leader Alvaro Cunhal, 62, spent many years in the Communist underground there organizing farm workers. Through the clandestinely published party newspaper Avante, which was surreptitiously dropped on doorsteps at night, the party organized a series of strikes in the 1950s−then a daring affront to the Salazar regime...
...loopy enterprise Network is! The production is designed, directed and acted with earnest, not to say dogged realism. The audience is asked to believe that people working inside the television oligopoly scheme to advance their corporate positions with such melodramatic abandon that their behavior constitutes not just an affront to traditional moral standards but clear and present danger to democratic society. Yet the plot that Paddy Chayefsky has concocted to prove this point is so crazily preposterous that even in post-Watergate America-where we know that bats can get loose in the corridors of power-it is just impossible...
...Israeli officials, the refugees' lack of interest in becoming citizens of the Jewish state seems like rank ingratitude and an affront to Zionist faith. The refugees, however, regard their free choice of a country as a natural human right that had long been denied them in the U.S.S.R. Many Russian Jews have been put off by reports of difficult conditions for refugees in Israel. Others are plainly fearful of subjecting themselves and their children to the ever present danger of war with the Arab world. Asked one would-be U.S. immigrant from the Soviet Union: "After having suffered...