Word: offending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Malenkov. Eden believed that Churchill's desire for a Malenkov meeting might unnecessarily offend Washington. Eden is historically sensitive to Prime Ministers (like Chamberlain in the late '30s) who develop foreign policies over Anthony Eden's head. The dispute was sharp and important: Eden was already getting advice from several of his friends to resign if Churchill went ahead...
...Finance Minister in 1946 but quit in a matter of days-each time because he could not win support for stringent anti-inflation measures. Has since turned down all Cabinet offers because he disapproved of the long succession of patchwork coalitions designed to do as little as possible to offend as few as possible of France's variegated factions. "You cannot cauterize a wooden leg," said Mendès-France contemptuously...
...Minister Edgar Faure with a shake of his head, "but the fall of this government is passionately wanted." Word from Geneva. The desire of the Assembly might not be rational, but it was plain. The Laniel government had refrained from doing much of anything about anything, so as to offend...
...Confiscate:rob: : (a) offend:insuit (b) receive:take (c) avenge:punish (d) trespass:walk (e) execute:murder...
...shopping district followed by a truck in which to carry their purchases back to the Imperial Hotel. One persistent matron spotted a decorative street lantern erected by the city in honor of the Cherry Festival. "I want that," she demanded, collaring a nearby shopkeeper. "I did not want to offend her," said the helpless Japanese, "but I could not sell her a municipal street decoration. After a moment, she gave me a look of unutterable disgust and proceeded...