Word: affrontive
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...near naval battle off Staten Island last week. The Russian ship Pobeda came into New York harbor with 37 employees for Russia's U.N. delegation. A U.S. health service officer came aboard for routine rat inspection. The Pobeda's captain took umbrage at what he considered an affront to national honor when the inspector claimed to have found evidence of rats. He refused to have his ship fumigated, insisting that his was a clean ship, with no rats. The health men showed him rat footprints on greasy ladders. No use. They showed him tail prints in the ventilators...
...United Irish Counties Association went to his rescue. It called the refusal of a visa "a masterpiece of ambiguity." And since O'Donnell was a "government official" (he is a member of Eire's Commission of Immigration), the association thought the ruling looked very much like an affront to the government of Eire...
Like a judge donning the black cap to pronounce the death penalty, the Speaker of the House of Commons placed his black cocked hat on his bewigged head. Then he read the sentence. For breach of confidence, an affront to the House, and contempt, the Honorable Member from Gravesend, Garry Allighan, was expelled from Commons...
Retort Discourteous. What sparked the Brazil-Soviet break was a rude affront to touchy national honor. Last fortnight Moscow's Izvestia said, in a generally churlish editorial on Brazil, that President Eurico Caspar Dutra was "surprisingly colorless even for a country where the generals are made, not on the battlefield, but on coffee plantations." The Brazilian Army fumed. A Foreign Office demand for an apology went unanswered. Last week the Brazilian Ambassador in Moscow was instructed to tell the Kremlin that 2½ years of edgy fraternity (but no trade) were all over...
...agile civilian drunk. The only riot remotely concerning the Navymen themselves occurred in Tottenham Court Road when authorities forgot to tell enlisted men about a dance scheduled at the Paramount Dance Hall. Only 50 sailors showed up. A shore patrol officer stopped by to explain this statistical affront to 450 disappointed London girls. The ladies, with screams and threats, drove him into the street to round up more escorts. He got another...