Word: affronts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...juries have found that the meters are competent witnesses and entirely legal. But there was a great deal of argument over the ethics of using the unseen screen. ¶In Madison, Wis., the director of the state branch of the American Automobile Association publicly denounced the meters as an affront to law-abiding drivers. ¶In Rochester, motorists who put tin foil or steel marbles in their hubcaps in an unsuccessful effort to foul the detectors were charged with attempting to obstruct justice as well as with speeding.† ¶ In Manchester, Conn., the Chamber of Commerce and auto dealers...
Myopia & Light. In the resultant editorial hand-wringing the world over, the sensitive Indians were probably the most bitter. THE WORLD'S CHAMPION BLUNDERER, headlined the middle-of-the-road People of Lucknow, meaning the U.S. "An affront to peace," said the big Times of India. "History will not pardon her [the U.S.]" said Calcutta's conservative Amrita Bazar Patrika, "if humanity is pushed into another holocaust by her myopic politicians." But there were notable exceptions to the cries of grief and indignation. In staunchly anti-Communist Greece and Turkey, pro-government papers backed the U.S. position...
...member of the "detaining side" (which means, in effect, that a U.S. or other trusted U.N. officer will watch every Red attempt to cajole the prisoners). The text provides that: "No force or threat of force shall be used . . . and no violence to their persons or affront to their dignity or self-respect shall be permitted ..." The fate of anti-Communist prisoners who refuse to go home will be discussed by a post-truce political conference; if the conference fails to agree on their disposition within 30 days, the prisoners will be transferred to civilian status and helped...
Naples, though its slum alleys are still noisome and laundry festoons every tenement, no longer seems such a violent affront to its breathtaking setting. To the land of the Fra Angelicos and hand-painted Sicilian donkey carts has come the neon glare of modern living-billboards, Life Savers, Esso stations, Hopalong Cassidy, even a little TV. Venetian canals boast traffic lights, and only a lusty gondolier could raise his tenor above the gaseous snarl of motoscafi...
Announcement of the three-year credit at 3½% annual interest forestalled a repetition of the extraordinary lawsuit of a New York exporter, who attached Brazilian assets in two New York banks to satisfy a $2,515 commercial debt. Enraged Brazilians, who regarded the suit as an affront to their national honor, had calmed down by the time the loan came. In one stroke the Eisenhower Administration had stolen the play from Juan Perón's visit to Chile (see below), and scored a clean-cut success in foreign policy...