Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must not offend, Mr. Byrnes cautioned. "We do not propose to seek security in alliance with the Soviet Union against Great Britain, or an alliance with Great Britain against the Soviet Union. We propose to stand with the United Nations...
...with which he assassinated the tyrant. In answer, sardonically, he says, 'From three medical students in exchange for the address of a Spanish whore.' The Army objected to the word 'Spanish,' explaining that Spain was a neutral country whom we did not wish to offend. They suggested as an alternative that I substitute a Greek whore, Greece, I presume, not being considered neutral and therefore capable of being offended without danger...
...Antigone's defiance of King Creon's edict that her brother Polynices' body must lie unburied might be a spur to French resistance. In writing the play, Anouilh was plainly walking on eggs. Not only must his Antigone hearten the French, but his Creon must not offend the Germans...
...With the Deerslayer, Sir Lancelot and Long John Silver, they have hunted, dueled, and sailed the painted spaces where no real harm ever comes to heroes. Wyeth had a high talent for getting the maximum of action into his adventure illustrations with the minimum of gross bloodshed which might offend parents more than boys...
...people who offend Richards most are those who think Basic is a sort of pidgin English. Actually it is pure English, boiled down to a vocabulary of 18 verbs,* 85 "structure words" (prepositions, conjunctions, etc.), 600 nouns, 150 adjectives...