Word: offending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Explaining the expected election standards, Dunn said Pete Edelman's Yardling ad "for crudity, lewdity, stewdity" was "as low on the ladder as we will let go by, the nadir." He insisted that material has "get to be clean enough not to offend women and parents...
...agitated among the 100,000 Vietnamese in Paris, and tried to drum up support for Indo-China reforms at the Versailles Peace Conference (Woodrow Wilson, apparently unwilling to offend the French, did not take up the matter...
Politically, it was a sound guess. Polls showed that Britons approved the trip more than 2 to 1. Labor voters were for it overwhelmingly. Some Tory papers deplored the trip, but chiefly because it might offend the U.S. The belief in "peaceful coexistence" is not exclusive to Socialists in Britain...
...launched Newsday on alligator-shaped Long Island in 1940, Publisher Patterson set out to violate every canon of sedate, well-mannered and deadly dull suburban journalism. Instead of loading her paper with name-dropping personal columns, handouts, accounts of tea parties and bake sales and local news that would offend no one, Newsday ran sprightly and irreverent stories, headlined everything from PROTECTED GAMBLING IN SUFFOLK COUNTY to SOCIALITE TOSSED INTO CELL...
Finally, Brownell asked National Chairman Leonard Hall to reason with Dworshak. The Senator's answer was the same: a flat no. He was convinced that by filling the job he would please only one man and offend many. At one point Dworshak exploded that he would not change his stand even if this meant that the G.O.P. high command would not support him this year. Soothed Deputy Attorney General William Rogers: "Of course we're going to help you." Snapped Dworshak: "Yes, by holding my head under water...