Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francis Osborn, 26, spotted a bulldozer parked near a street-repair job, climbed aboard and happily chased ten policemen about the city streets, explained testily as he was booked for assault with a deadly weapon: "I just wanted to see if I could still run one." If Thy Brother Offend Thee. In Terre Haute, Ind., Frederick F. Wendholt, Bible salesman for the House of Harmony Co., angrily called police, complained that fellow Bible salesman Robert L. Allaman had assaulted him and tried to throw him out of the Filbeck Hotel in an effort to muscle in on his territory...
...publicity, the royal family and the Eden government have put themselves in a position where they cannot win. If, at the last minute, they persuade Margaret to send Townsend away, they will be undemocratic bullies in the eyes of many. If they give even reluctant consent, they will offend many others...
...Council of Christian Churches, twinkly-eyed Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, carefully explained why he is only a 99 44/100% teetotaler. Though voicing distress about the "amount of pressure to have something" to drink at present-day social gatherings, Dr. Fisher forthrightly said that he tries not to offend hostesses who serve spirits. But those who place all manner of grog before him are treated to no crass bacchanalian spectacle.When the festivities wind up, the liquor level in the Archbishop's glass is never lowered by more than "one-sixteenth of an inch." Confessed Slight Sipper Fisher...
...Most Rev. John J. Scanlan, Auxiliary Bishop of Honolulu's Roman Catholic Diocese, promptly protested. "It certainly seems in bad taste that the delegates should choose this occasion to offend the largest religious group in these islands [and] to attack the motives and teachings of that Church which is the Mother of Christian civilization...
Like ex-patient Boisen, he was shocked at the casual insensitivity of the clergy who bothered to visit mental patients at all; they would preach on such irrelevant subjects as foreign missions or potentially explosive texts, e.g., "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out." But there was more to it than simply giving the patients understanding, says Bruder. "I found in what Boisen called 'the wilderness of the lost' you discovered the needs of people at the ground level, naked both emotionally and physically. It was a whole new field...