Word: affrontive
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...Khrushchev visit to the U.S. is a monstrous affront on the part of the President to almost any horizontal or vertical cross section of American citizens. It is an insult to our intelligence to be asked to accept this visit for the fatuous reasons advanced. If this visit will lead to a peachy-dandy world peace, then I'd like a top job in the State Department...
...oath to students requesting loans, in order to applaud and encourage "the high motives which prompted Congress to pass the ... Act." But President Pusey, in a letter supporting Senator Kennedy's bill to abolish the oath requirement, also called the oath "rude and unworthy of Congress," "a direct personal affront" to the colleges, and urged that Kennedy's committee recommend the "elimination of this odious section...
...father of the dead student, Eugène Rolland, 52, a bank official, could not be comforted by his wife or his remaining son, 14-year-old Michel. He considered the verdict an "affront," complained that some of the witnesses had hinted that Alain got only what he deserved, railed against the "bandit" Amiel, whose life was supposedly dedicated to children and who had betrayed his trust...
...letter, Pusey terms the section "a direct personal affront" to the faculties and student bodies of American colleges. "The Congress has singled out," according to Pusey, "our college people alone as a special group and then said to them by implication, 'We are not sure you are fine loyal Americans. As a matter of fact, we rather think...
...bitter disappointment to the people," the Deseret News said forebodingly, as the state legislature tried but failed to override Clyde's veto. "It is an affront to the legislators ... it is an astonishing, unaccountable reversal of what the people expected from the Governor...