Word: affronts
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...some ways the trial of Shcharansky could be seen as a personal affront to Carter, since the President had publicly denied the Soviet charge that Shcharansky was a CIA agent. Certainly the timing of the trial, in the week of the SALT meeting, was a slap in the face for the Administration. But the U.S. moved cautiously in choosing the means to protest (and there were even weekend rumors that it was negotiating some kind of exchange for Shcharansky). When the trial date was announced, the White House ostentatiously canceled trips to the U.S.S.R. by two U.S. delegations. Washington later...
...South African government is presently drawing up a new constitution that includes goals of creating political equality and economic opportunity, and will move toward rectifying "things which were an affront to human dignity," Sole said...
...like the members of his bodyguard, our outrage would have been, even fainter. Since the assassinations of the Kennedys, we seem to have no more shock to register about 'the killing of a public man. Besides, there is a sense in which an assassination is less of an affront to morality than a kidnaping. The great man is knifed. Revenge is accomplished or unholy ambition thwarted. This is only a rerun of Julius Caesar, without the blank verse. Long live, for a time, Brutus. With kidnaping, however, you have torment direct and referred−the waiting, the humiliation...
Jackie did not vote in the 1964 election, and some of the Johnson people wondered then if it was a deliberate affront. Jackie's story is different. "People in my own family told me I should vote. I said, 'I'm not going to vote' ... You see, I'd never voted until I was married to Jack ... and I thought, 'I'm not going to vote for any [other person] because this vote would have been his.' They were all rather cross at me. Not cross, but they...
...about what might happen if the left won a majority of the popular vote but did not get at least half of the 491 Assembly seats. The result, former Premier Pierre Mendès France, a Socialist, warned last week, could be "chaos." Said he: "It would be an affront to the country to impose a government against the people's will." Barre's reply was blunt: "I don't understand Mendès France's argument. The same Frenchmen will vote in both rounds. There's an old saying in France...