Word: affrontive
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Howe went on to ask Republicans to cross party lines on the primary and vote for McCormack. He termed Kennedy's candidacy "an affront to political decency...
James Valentine brings a youthful earnestness to the part of Hotspur. Hugh Feagin's Aumerle and Sada Thompson's Duchess of York are helpful. Of the other players, some are adequate, and some so affront the English language as should be banned from any stage whatsoever...
...Dean Rusk flew to West Berlin and then to Bonn. The Berlin stop was a formality, a mere 2¾-hour duty visit to sign the city's famed Golden Book, confer briefly with Mayor Willy Brandt, peer over the Wall. Although Rusk predicted that some day this "affront to human dignity" would come down, sensitive Berliners complained that the Rusk visit had been perfunctory...
...European managerial system is apt to affront the U.S. businessman, but before the American congratulates himself too much, Granick suggests, he should consider the track record of European executives. Discounting the effects of the two World Wars, Granick calculates that ever since 1900, per capita economic expansion has been faster in West Germany, France and Britain than it has been...
...Hater. Kennedy had been unable to recoup the Cuba disaster, and the defeat still rankles deeply. But he was certainly able to fight back against Big Steel -and he meant to do just that. To Kennedy, U.S. Steel's price-hike decision was a personal affront. Through Secretary Goldberg, he had all but presided over U.S. Steel's labor contract negotiations. He had personally urged both labor and management to exercise "restraint." His Administration had persuaded United Steelworkers' President David McDonald to agree to a "noninflationary" contract: it included no wage raise, called for an increase...