Word: affront
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...their part, the Greens, who plan to have more children, apologized for any "affront" to the court and asked forgiveness. Judge Francis Keating gave them just that. He found them guilty, but passed no sentence. Declaring the case "exceptional," Keating said: "Any further punishment beyond what has already been endured would certainly be unfair...
Speaking at the rally, which was organized by school administrators and Black student leaders, college President John W. Chandler called the cross-burning "deeply disturbing" and "an affront to the fundamental values and commitments of Williams College...
...Whether this was a prank or a more serious, racially-motivated incident, the cross-burning is an affront to all Williams students," senior Stephen Willard said yesterday...
Sullivan said he told the union that he "found their actions reprehensible. I told them it was an affront to the taxpayers of the city that they attempted to disrupt the 350th celebration, an event which would have been irretrievable if they had succeeded," he said...
...estate bore the cost of 96 pairs of kid gloves and 50 suits of mourning made expressly for the funeral. And during the Revolutionary War, a Tory German matron threw a birthday part in honor of George III. Cantabrigians could hardly keep their temper at that affront, so they surrounded the house in "silent, non-violent protest...