Word: offending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begun to seem useful and highly stable citizens. In 1694, only three years after Fox's death, the Friends who edited and published the Journal of his life's work were busily snipping out some of the angrier and more polemic passages, for fear they might offend some one. Their abridgment became the standard version...
...world. While the Graphic carefully minds its manners, the Mirror minds its readers with eye-catching cheesecake and lurid tabloid writing. Fleet Streeters even recall that the Graphic once cropped a picture to show only the head of a bull because Lady Kemsley protested that the entire photo would offend Graphic readers...
...Later that evening, before the 8,000 people who crowded Denver's auditorium, Stevenson again lashed out at Eisenhower's statements on "the mess in Washington." Said he: "For some time I have been wondering whether [Eisenhower] was going to find something to say that would not offend one of the Republican parties. Now at last I think he found it. In recent days he has come forth with a fine, free-swinging attack on that old bogey, corruption . . . There is no issue between him and myself on corruption. I am not only against it, I have actually...
Last week, in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the California courts and made Antonio Rochin a free man. Wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter for the majority of the court: ". . . The proceedings by which this conviction was obtained do more than offend some fastidious squeamishness ... They are methods too close to the rack and the screw to permit of constitutional differentiation." Frankfurter based his decision on the 14th Amendment, which forbids a state to interfere with a person's life or liberty "without due process...
...greatest forces for juvenile good in the country"), and Bernard Baruch ("The same thrill I got as a boy reading Oliver Optic and Horatio Alger"). Creator Trendle offers his own recipe for the show's long life: "It is just plain, good, healthy American entertainment which will not offend anyone, because there is just nothing in it to criticize...