Word: affrontive
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...vote two days later. In the Senate, Mansfield hurried back onto the floor and announced that he would move to discharge McClellan's committee and obtain a Senate vote before the House could act. It was a fatal move: tough old John McClellan took it as a personal affront and began rounding up votes to defeat the discharge petition...
...swollen, scandalous thing sits there, an affront to political morality, economic logic and plain common sense. Truman and Eisenhower each had his turn at "the farm problem," and each left it worse than he found it. Last week the Kennedy Administration announced its farm plan...
...President's action was carefully calculated to put the G.O.P. on a spot. Democratic reasoning was obvious: a party-line Republican vote against the department, on the House or Senate floor, could be billed as an affront to city dwellers and Negroes alike-and no Congressman from a big urban district could afford to take such a chance in an election year. Yet there was nothing to prevent the big-city Republicans from voting for the Department of Urban Affairs. If the Kennedy Administration got its new Cabinet office, it would indeed become an election-year prize. But then...
...ditty fell into Nasser's hands and he exploded. Speaking at Port Said last week, Nasser lumped the Imam with Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Saud as "reactionaries," and accused them of fostering conditions that are an affront to "the law of justice and the law of God." Said Nasser: "We shall have genuine class equality. Political freedom is nonsense without freedom from feudalism and capitalism ... If social justice is applied in Saudi Arabia, how can King Saud finance his harem and his slaves?" Stabbing the air with his fingers and pursing...
...Saigon, a U.S. embassy aide pointed out that "since Colonel Nam worked with the I.C.C. since its founding, this can be considered an affront to the commission itself." One I.C.C. member confessed his "distress" over the incident, then asked plaintively: "But what can we do about it? We have no power to act in such cases...