Word: offender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he can put her name in lights. The middle five, slaves of an old Dutch custom giving first chance to the eldest, aid & abet the match for all their high Cs are worth although Billie (Kathryn Grayson), the youngest, loves him just for himself, but cannot bear to offend tradition by making off with...
There have been irritations, and there will doubtless be more. Clashes on high policy and procedure often enliven staff conferences, cause many a private cussing bee. U.S. pilots and crews, training with British units, find unaccustomed formalities and shibboleths in R.A.F. mess life, and sometimes they offend British sensibilities. At every stage of air operation, from training to combat, the R.A.F. and the Army Air Forces think and act differently. Now, within the tight confines of Britain, all these differences must be fitted into one operational pattern...
Plea. In The Bronx, Joseph Penner,-charged with smoking in the subway, told the judge he never smoked but a stranger had asked him to and he hated to offend him. Fine...
...appeared in last night's Presse: [translation] 'Marshal Pétain has modified the text of the Marseillaise. In the future the verse following the refrain: Their blood impure shall bathe our thresholds soon will not be sung. Pétain probably thinks that these words could offend the Germans or the partisans of collaboration. Words to replace those eliminated have not yet been chosen...
...referring to any problem arising out of censorship. What we have in mind is the necessity for candid reporting and honest criticism, on the one hand; and, on the other, the natural desire at this time not to offend or harass any loyal person or group or institution working in the common cause...