Word: affrontive
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...sailors from the visiting U.S. cruiser Baltimore tangled with Chileans in Valparaiso harbor. Two Americans were killed, several injured, but in Chilean legend the story grew into a Yonqui affront to national honor...
...labor, Democrats and Republicans, Molotov and Byrnes, men and women, even clashes between gridmen of Harvard and Yale. As the result of "domestic bungling" the American table, as sacred as the Constitution, was affected. A meat-loving people was offered the horse. Schlesinger said this was termed the affront which caused "rebellion in the hearts of men." Kentucky threatened secession when steaks were carved from...
...documentary on gardening (TIME, Aug. 5). U.S. censors demanded further appeasement. (Example: as an undergraduate cutup, the rake, or notorious gentleman, one day climbs an Oxford monument to deposit a chamber pot on the spire.* The Johnston Office, either on the grounds that a thundermug was an affront to American plumberhood or that it was just plain vulgar, substituted a silk...
...UNRRA mission full freedom of movement and inspection in carrying out the $189 million relief program. In fact, Russian solicitude was sometimes embarrassing. A Ukrainian peasant and his wife, assigned to clean the mission's Kiev offices, parked a pig in the garden. Officials thought this an affront to UNRRA's dignity, ordered the pig removed. The UNRRA workers said they did not mind the pig. The officials insisted. So the peasant gave the legal two weeks' notice, walked out with his wife...
When Mayor Curley ordered some revisions in "Flamingo Road" (on the ground that it was "an affront to the good people of Boston during the Lenten season"), there were plenty of good people of Boston who thought. His Honor had ulterior motives in discrediting the play. About the only thing noteworthy in the new Rowland Stebbins production is that Curley's critics are probably right: "Flamingo Road" is full of the sort of dirty Southern politics that some people say is paralleled in Boston...