Word: offending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time" give help and advice to those who ask for it. Not much is known of them, in France or elsewhere. While not secret, the work of the Missions is kept discreetly quiet, to avoid attracting undue attention from the Communists, and because their priests' unorthodox activities sometimes offend strait-laced Roman Catholics. But on no other front is the church working any harder to reclaim its lost sheep...
...Mullican, 30, got his art training in the Army, mapping air views of Pacific islands. His paintings did not offend the eye, they hurt it, being composed of innumerable shreds of intolerably bright conflicting colors. Unlike the more austere abstractionists, he gave his pictures titles, but such tags as He-Rain and Happily the Chiefs Regard You would be lost on gallerygoers who were not Navajo Indians...
...lazy, and he is lazy because he has 15 children and he makes them work on his farm. But he has to have some job, so he is the Communist Party's informer. We all know him, and pay no attention to him. But we dare not offend him, or he would denounce...