Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been raised in the U.N. many times, the motion has always stalled on the two-headed, green-eyed problem of sovereignty and national interest. Palestine security posed the very same problems that have always sapped the United Nations of its intended strength. The U.S. didn't want to offend, any more than possible, the wealthy owners of Arabian oil lands; any concentration of Russian troops in the Middle East seemed strategically unwise; and small nations refused to sacrifice their tiny armies to the cause of international police. The stakes riding on a successful partition of Palestine demand a safeguard beyond...
...fraternities. Its deans realize that a serious social problem exists, but they are unwilling to turn to the Houses to solve it. They feel that our society just does not permit women to be entertained in gentlemen's rooms. To let down the bars, they argue, would offend too many people. They feel it is their duty to the community to arrange that women not be seen entering the Houses at night, and that is their duty to the students to teach them the mores of our society. They feel, in addition, that they owe it to the University...
...movie version of Marquand's own The Late George Apley "had nothing to do with what the book intended to convey. . . . When you tie up $2,000,000 in a movie, you become awfully careful not to offend very many people. . . . Movies wear me out. I'd rather sit at home and look at the sunset...
...hors d'oeuvres included a chatty letters column, with a grateful note from Reader Robert A. Taft, a bitter bleat from a customer who said the magazine stank. (Right, said the editor; it was that new black ink. Printed fine, smelled bad. The Post wouldn't offend again...
...McEvoy. But most of the jingles which Odell rapidly spread across the U.S. came in as the result of Burma-Vita's offer to pay $100 for every one used. Some of the contributions Burma-Vita would like to use but doesn't lest they offend public taste. One of the more printable rejects...