Word: offend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glowing aftermath of the airmen's release, things seemed somehow different. The Administration went out of its way to prevent anything that might offend Khrushchev or otherwise cause international ill will. Jack Kennedy imposed strict controls on "tough" policy speeches by Pentagon leaders: Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke was required to rewrite a speech almost completely; Air Force Chief of Staff Thomas D. White was questioned about two paragraphs in a speech that was finally cleared. The Administration also asked for a postponement until March on a Warsaw meeting to discuss the bitter issue of five American civilians...
...revolution. His financial talents were frustrated by a shortage of funds until he had a fortunate stroke of bad luck. In 1920 Jenkins was kidnaped by General Manuel Peláez, one of the bandit enemies of then-President Venustiano Carranza, and held for $25,000 ransom. Rather than offend the intervention-prone U.S., Carranza paid off- and through an unlikely stroke of generosity on General Pelÿez' part, Jenkins is said to have received half of the booty...
...Americans (correctly or incorrectly) have thought before him (to wit: 1. Nixon is an evil man. 2. Kennedy is ambitious, but not as evil as Nixon. 3. The President of the United States, alas, is a fool.). His well-known remark "Are there any minority groups I haven't offended?" is cute but deceptive, for he's careful only to offend the minority groups which one can get away with offending. His entire viewpoint resembles, in fact, that of a slightly eccentric but avid supporter of Adlai Stevenson. And it need hardly be remarked be that views of this sort...
...Welensky's tactless remarks offend many Rhodesians "Unwarrantable interference in the internal affairs of another country," said Belgium, which hopes it can keep the colony together long enough to give it its independence...
...article, "Bible Disneyland." Do you suppose Messrs. Winecoff, Haley & Co. have considered the profitable possibilities of a Drive-the-Money-Changers-Out-of-the-Temple Gallery or the happy prospect of a Mt. Calvary Merry-Go-Round with the bloody Cross as its axis? Or would these features, perhaps, offend someone's "religious sensibilities...