Word: affronts
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...some truth in advertising and call this the "North American Series"? A touch less glamorous perhaps. But until baseball rivals soccer - which IS played in the vast majority of nations on this planet, and can thus really stage a "World" Cup - to call it anything more is a serious affront to the English language...
...assumed he'd get his answer, yes or no, privately from Barak. Barak insisted his decision had been inadvertently leaked before he'd had a chance to tell Arafat. The Israeli prime minister had been meticulous about protocol in the past. But Arafat fumed that this was a public affront designed to embarrass...
...less so for the Christian prayer we heard on game days. Yet as much as I agree with the high court's ruling as a matter of principle, my own experience might make an argument for the other side. Rather than feeling an increased "sense of isolation and affront," as the court warns us those in the religious minority might experience, I sometimes found an unexpected degree of the opposite: inclusion and camaraderie with my teammates after taking part in the pregame prayers, a solemn connection that I wanted to scoff at but, because it moved me, could...
...sweet soul with a clownish side that at one point last year prompted teammates to tape his mouth shut and tie him to a pole in the dugout. But on the mound, he has a keen sense of machismo. He feels that a man on base is an affront. Opponents are batting just .056 against him when their team has runners in scoring position...
...Lift High the Cross" (FM, April 13) could critique evangelical Christian groups. The piece may also be an affront to Christianity in general. I profess to be Catholic, and though I may not agree with the tactics of all the groups participating in Jesus Week--which would normally be called "Holy Week" on traditional liturgical calendars--I loathe denouncing them...