Word: affronts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depict the bloody events of history was an affront to Confucian principles of restraint and propriety. When Painter...
...story Kasper told the committee brought the wrath of his own faction down on him, but his activities have so far incurred no censure from the responsible citizens of Florida. Kasper admitted to a crime which is an affront to the segregationist ethic: he had danced, traveled, and corresponded with a Negro girls, whom he had met in his Greenwich Village bokstore: to the Ku Klux Klan, of course, all this equals miscegenation...
...Seattle's weekly Argus (circ. 5.142), which has beaten the city's dailies on big local stories. Last week the Argus came out with a scorching editorial -first to appear in any Seattle paper- condemning the Teamsters Union in Dave Beck's home town for its "affront to the public" in refusing to answer Senate investigators' questions...
Change of Title. The biggest remaining affront to Vietnamese pride was French insistence on maintaining a high commissioner instead of an ambassador. Last week that, too, was changed. The Quai d'Orsay announced that High Commissioner Henri Hoppenot, who has never got on well with the Vietnamese, would be recalled and replaced by an ambassador. Delighted, Premier Diem invited Hoppenot to his palace for a farewell Chinese dinner, a gesture unthinkable a year...
...years since Peter Townsend had first gone to serve his King, the coltish teen-ager in the corridor had grown into a woman fully conscious of her position and proud of its prerogatives. Warmly magnetic when she wants to be, she can stiffen into icy frigidity at any affront to the protocol she feels is her due. Even her best friends call her "Ma'am," and a brash acquaintance who once inquired solicitously after the health "of your father," was instantly frozen with the reply, "I presume you mean His Majesty...