Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telling the truth TIME may sometimes offend-and for this TIME is deeply sorry. Only recently a brief article in TIME became an international issue when death gave it an unintended significance. TIME especially regrets any offense to the sensibilities of its friends in Latin America-resulting from this article. But honest, factual reporting on events in every part of the world is essential if the people of the Americas are to help guide the destinies of their nations...
...progressive Timken Roller Bearing Co., a railroad supplier for 37 years, last week went out of its way to offend one of its best customers. In full-page newspaper ads, run in 23 U.S. cities, it stingingly rebuked the railroads for technical backwardness, urged them to avoid "serious freight congestion" by converting all their freight cars from friction bearings to roller bearings at once...
...part. That would be rude. Besides, it would not be true. But the point I am trying to make is that your writers go out of their way to describe their subjects as "potbellied," "bullnecked," "paunchy," and the like. By so doing they invite ill will, engender resentment, and offend the nice sensibilities, for instance, of foreign diplomats who are schooled in politeness and courtesy. ... It was considered smart by some, after World War I, to be rude. Just when manners seemed to be improving, along comes your magazine, grabs Grandma Literary Digest by the seat of her inner chaps...
...years ago, a $52,000,000 naval authorization bill introduced in the House contained an item of $5,000,000 for harbor improvements at Guam. For three days Congressmen raged against this item. Their theme: the appropriation might offend Japan, cause war. The debate began on the eve of Washington's Birthday; speaker after speaker summoned the shade of the Father of his Country, keened over the insult to Japan (though amused Japanese politely protested that the U. S. had a perfect right to improve its own property), and the item was stricken from the bill...
Banned from this year's carnaval are the sambas with satiric verses that might offend touchy European countries. But one of this year's sambas describes Italians fleeing through the desert, praying to Allah for water. But there is still more than enough fun for the Cariocas and their guests-dancing in the streets, wearing gay costumes, jamming aboard the open streetcars, making up new and scurrilous samba verses and above all enjoying four unfettered days in a formal country and an uneasy world...