Word: offend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opera buffa nicknames that newspaper rewrite men use to lend a tint of life to their gangster stories. Secondly, Puzo's Corleone family has manly standards. Gambling, labor extortion, an occasional unavoidable murder and some judicious bribery are all in order. But no prostitution or drugs. These enterprises offend the strait-laced sensibility of the Godfather, Don Vito Corleone...
...with Negro regular Scoey Mitchell by announcing: "Scoey and I felt that tonight we would like to take a step toward breaking down the barriers between the races." "We realize," continued Scoey, "that if a white man were to kiss a black girl, that would offend many people." Tommy pointed out that "on the other hand, if a black man were to kiss a white girl, that, too, would offend many people. So we would like to take the only logical step we could take where nobody would be offended." The two men then turned to ward each other with...
...mood to gratify this intellectual need. Similarly, the juvenile ape, observing grownup behavior, mimes it in his games. For this pleasurable educational system, modern man has substituted the discipline of the classroom and the material rewards of grades, both of which, in Washburn's view, offend man's basic biological nature...
...Ohio senate, then the U.S. Senate, borne on waves of alliteration: "Progress is not proclamation nor palaver," he orated when delivering the nominating speech for Taft in 1912. "It is not pretence nor play on prejudice." He based his own progress on one cardinal rule: Don't "offend anybody." Half awesomely, he was described as "the greatest exponent of standpatism the state ever...
EDDIE HARRIS, PLUG ME IN (Atlantic). An electric tenor saxophone? The idea may offend jazz purists, but rock fans will get a charge out of this easygoing soul session. With capable backing from such musicians as Jimmy Owens and Joe Newman, Harris uses his extra go-power to create warmth and depth. The set gets off to a rolling, sinew-stretching start on Live Right Now, a down-home boogaloo. Harris plays with heavy-throated gentleness on the bluesy Ballad (For My Love), and with a dulcet, flowing tone on Winter Meeting. There's just a bit of metallic...