Word: affronts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Screams of "Nadra!" The Moslems of Singapore (Malays, Pakistanis, Indonesians) had followed the case with mounting religious and racial excitement. Cried Schoolmaster Mansur's enraged kinfolk: "This is a fight between European and Asian!" In the mosques the mullahs spoke of an affront to Islam. Last week the Moslem anger erupted in the most vicious rioting in Singapore memory...
Kaishek; the President's affront to Chiang through his order "neutralizing" Formosa; MacArthur's own flying visit to Formosa, and the Administration's alarm that this would be construed as U.S. acceptance of Chiang...
Last came the nomination of Carroll Switzer to an Iowa judgeship. Switzer was the Democrats' defeated 1948 candidate for governor, and Harry Truman had not consulted Iowa's Senator Guy Gillette about appointing him to the bench. "A personal affront," said Gillette. Senators -who might want the favor returned some day-shouted their support of Gillette, rebuffing Harry Truman for the fourth time in one afternoon...
...Italy last week, sport fans roared of an affront to national dignity. In Paris, the French Foreign Ministry tendered its regrets to the Italian embassy. At week's end, the French Tour director announced a slight detour: the last half of the race will bypass Italy...
Surveys among the nation's 5,863,000 TV set owners show that their moviegoing has fallen off by 20 to 72%-even though TV entertainment is still largely an affront to the eye. What will happen to the theaters as the owners multiply and TV shows improve? The thought has driven groups of movie exhibitors into a frenzy of forced optimism and "showmanship,"* and their leaders have felt called upon to urge them not to sell their theaters...