Word: affronted
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Before he continues to threaten players with facial rearrangement, complain about the refs, or affront the rules of grammar, he needs to get in the gym and shoot some free throws...
...peek at what lies beyond. Last Tuesday, I saw my chance to do something for a respected and missed Harvard professor I had never had the chance to know, but who had touched me by touching those around me. Maybe it was small, but it was something, a minor affront removed...
That is no choice at all, Justice promptly responded, labeling Microsoft's letter-of-the-law gambit an "affront" and renewing its call for a $1 million-a-day contempt fine. Judge Jackson postponed a hearing on the issue until mid-January but noted pointedly in court that it took only 90 seconds to remove Explorer from his version of Windows 95, and that the computer worked just fine without...
...Department fired back at Bill Gates Wednesday with a familiar request filed in D.C.'s U.S. District Court: Hold Microsoft in contempt, this time for evading the unbundling order. "Microsoft's naked attempt to defeat the purpose of the court order and to further its litigation strategy is an affront to the court's authority," the government asserted in papers. Trustbuster Joel Klein went on: "Microsoft has gone from tying its products to tying the hands of its vendors," he said. "The more Microsoft continues this practice, the more consumers are harmed...
Some may take affront at the suggestion that they're not yet really as broad-minded or understanding as they could be. I'd like to believe that the queer community and its ardent supporters, who advocate incessantly for tolerance, are themselves tolerant of all views and opinions. But suggestions that those of us who aren't radicals are traitors or worse reminds me of the sad truth of our political climate. As conservatives, we are still not tolerated here at Harvard...