Word: affronts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole mess was an affront to the small-town businessman who stepped into the middle of it. Back home in St. Chamond, a small town (pop. 14,500) which prides itself on being the shoelace capital of France, Antoine Pinay had made his small tannery (50 employees) bigger and more profitable than when he inherited it from his father-in-law. There was no reason, he confided to an intimate, why a man could not run France the way he runs a business...
...reporters did. Characteristically, he had bluntly said what he thought, but he showed no sign of wanting to start an all-out feud. No one at the Eisenhower headquarters was inclined to get into an argument with him. Contrary to some speculation, there was no oversight and no deliberate affront in the way the Durkin appointment was handled. Taft was asked for recommendations, submitted some (including Connecticut's former Senator John A. Danaher). His suggestions were considered, and rejected. Ike thought that Durkin would give the Cabinet balance and implement the campaign promise that his administration would be "fair...
Immersed in such activity, MacLeish has faced the problems of democracy first hand, and has been conscious especially of the ambiguities and has been conscious especially of the ambiguities and enigmas of life. His subject matter, therefore, often lies in the realm of forces which affront human dignity and which threaten human freedom. One never doubts his sincerity and authority. Yet his feelings tend to overshadow some of his work, the flame obscures the value of the poem as a whole. Selections from Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City (1932) and Public Speech (1936) have this blemish, although they contain...
...felt he was not romantic enough for the role. Shortly afterwards, she apparently changed her mind because she decided to marry him. She puts him up in her elegant home overlooking the bay and gives him plenty of pocket money, but Palance is still brooding over her professional affront to him. With the help of an old flame (Gloria Grahame), he decides to eliminate Joan so that he can inherit her money-and presumably finance a stage production in which he will-play the romantic lead...
...five months later, when Barkley was getting ready to nominate Roosevelt for a fourth term at the Democratic Convention, Barkley got the news that Roosevelt had passed him over as a candidate for Vice President in favor of Harry Truman. This was a personal hurt, but not an affront to the party, so Barkley pulled himself together and made the hall echo with his eulogy of the Chief...