Word: affronts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Next afternoon, with Nasser at his side, the Yugoslav leader told 50,000 cheering old partisans gathered on the Sutjeska battlefield: "No one can break us." Nasser himself, by visiting Tito at this point, was making the most audacious affront to the Soviets he had ever risked. According to Cairo scuttlebutt, Nasser returned from his recent 17-day state visit to Russia bored by too many banquets and somewhat unimpressed. He also came home with no more Russian rubles, though reportedly the kind of Russian help he likes most-complete diplomatic backing in his troublemaking-costs Russia not a ruble...
...affront was not subjectively aimed at Mr. Nixon (although objectively speaking he got the worst of it) but at the government and people of the United States. Unfortunately, the hatred felt by many students in Peru and the hostility felt by most South Americans toward this nation is blamed on the South Americans, not the North Americans. Even Mr. Nixon, who should realize by now that this nation is not altogether beloved below the equator, seemed to place the blame for the San Marcos incident on the Peruvians: "This day will live in infamy in the history of San Marcos...