Word: affronted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White Highlands are "white" because since 1939 only Kenya's 60,000 Europeans have been allowed to lease farms there-a state of affairs that has constituted a perennial political and psychological affront to the colony's 6,000,000 Africans. The new plan might ease the affront, but even its proponents did not argue that it would admit more than a sprinkling of non-Europeans into the Highlands. As the plan now stands, an African farmer who wanted to move into the Highlands would first have to get financing, then find a European farmer who was willing...
...life or profession puts him above the law, nor indeed above local responsibilities. While the life of the mind requires no intrusion from without, the intellectual still is in his private life and in the actual exercise of his profession an individual man; and it is nothing but an affront to good common sense for him to insist that his profession precludes commitment to the local (institutional) conditions of his own personal--indeed professional--existence. The matter is made worse by the fact that the typically abstract mind is not always capable of local commitments and tends often to treat...
...quite confident we can get the bill out of committee by offering this compromise," Senator Clark asserted. The compromise, under present circumstances, probably represents the most feasible way to eliminate the affidavit, which President Pusey has deemed "a direct personal affront" to the college faculties and students...
...Khrushchev visit to the U.S. is a monstrous affront on the part of the President to almost any horizontal or vertical cross section of American citizens. It is an insult to our intelligence to be asked to accept this visit for the fatuous reasons advanced. If this visit will lead to a peachy-dandy world peace, then I'd like a top job in the State Department...
...oath to students requesting loans, in order to applaud and encourage "the high motives which prompted Congress to pass the ... Act." But President Pusey, in a letter supporting Senator Kennedy's bill to abolish the oath requirement, also called the oath "rude and unworthy of Congress," "a direct personal affront" to the colleges, and urged that Kennedy's committee recommend the "elimination of this odious section...