Word: affronts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them Army General Georges Buch-alet-to Tunis with a private message for Bourguiba. Bourguiba took the general's presence as an implied threat, coldly refused to receive him. After a two-day impasse the two French envoys, their message undelivered, flew back to Paris. "An affront to France," cried Paris newspapers...
Even more unlikely was genial Jim Hagerty's hopping-mad reaction to the column. Though Buchwald's jest was actually a spoof at the press (which took it as such, and laughed heartily), Press Secretary (and onetime New York Timesman) Hagerty took it as a personal affront, bawled out the Herald Tribune by telephone, barred Columnist Buchwald from all future briefings. Said he later: "I was so mad I could cry. The President read it and laughed. This made me madder. The President said: 'Simmer down, Jim, simmer down.' " Instead, the upsimmering Hagerty swore that...
...Klux Klan pamphlet. To drop this book from the textbook list is a shortsighted educational policy. Surely this acknowledged classic presents life in terms universal enough to out-weigh its incidental provincial slants. Let the latter be considered in historical terms and not taken as a contemporary affront...
...guard their liberties, ensure their prosperity, levy their taxes, and sell their wheat is a husky (5 ft. 11½ in., 175 lbs.) prairie lawyer who practices the profession of politics with all the zeal of a successful evangelist. John Diefenbaker is an intense, moody man, sensitive to personal affront. His deep-set blue eyes can blaze with anger or fill with quick emotion; moments later he can smile with easy friendship, remember a name, recall an anecdote to suit an occasion and mood. Brought up a Baptist, Diefenbaker does not smoke, and he recently surprised Sir Winston Churchill...
...made news with its film entries rather than with the spectacle of unknown starlets baring things for the photographers. The festival's French judges had mixed feelings about Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's film version of Columnist Robert Ruark's Something of Value. Reason: Something is some affront to most Frenchmen; its story of British colonialism's bitter fruit in Kenya unhappily resembles France's current gory predicament in Algeria. M-G-M unhappily scratched this entry. Most sensational movie shown in Cannes was the Soviet Union's The Forty-First, marking the Russian moviemakers...