Word: affronted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia's actions against Yugoslavia., the declaration said: "Every people has the right to self-determination . . . without any economic, political or military pressures or interferences on the part of other states . . . Every state has the duty ... to curb all activities calculated to spread hatred toward other peoples, to affront their honor or offend the dignity of and slander, other states...
...beard has also been under fire as "a hindrance to spitting and a disturbance to elocution," a symbol of animal lust and corruption, an impediment to gas masks, an affront to pure womanhood. Detractors of the beard might even argue that the shaven jowl is invaluable in time of war: e.g., the Saxons might have won the Battle of Hastings if they had not panicked at sight of the clean-shaven Norman army. (They concluded that it consisted entirely of "Presbyteros"-which is Latin for "priests," Author Reynolds hastily explains, "not Presbyterians-a fantasy far more terrifying...
Three days later, the administration committee unanimously prohibited the Gus Hall speech, "for the reason that to permit a person to speak while he is on trial would constitute an affront to the court...
...emphasized time and again in undergraduate statements that the handling of the problem by the administration constituted an affront to the maturity of the student body...
...person of decorum. Wrote one turn-of-the-century authority with stiff finality: "No person familiar with Yale customs ever thinks of speaking to an undergraduate member even in the most indirect manner about his society or either of the others. To do so intentionally would be a serious affront...