Word: offending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What had Democrat Stevenson done to offend? He had aggrieved Democrat McDonald by speaking out forthrightly on the steel strike that had dragged on for 116 days until interrupted by a Taft-Hartley injunction, and that threatens to erupt again when the So-day injunction runs out in late January...
Rocky even managed to offend the television crews at a Los Angeles press conference by insisting on dividing it into two parts-one for the general press, one for TV. The technique had worked well enough back East, but the Angelenos would have none of it. As the TV crews noisily packed up and marched out in a mass huff, Rockefeller observed wryly: "A lesson in how to win friends and influence people...
...human is alien to us. Speaking frankly, comrade writers, some of your books simply make us feel sorry for you. Suppose you read a book about writers in which all attention is focused on the problem of which finger you hit the typewriter key with. Wouldn't it offend you? Then why don't you writers realize how boring it is to read books in which, instead of telling about living people, you only describe the square-cluster method of planting potatoes? We want to tell you bluntly that we know better than you do how to milk...
...decided, the case did not establish the far-reaching precedent that the clergy wanted. Barrister Russell took the cautious line that the two Bembas had really done nothing to offend native law because, he showed, in modern Rhodesia the grain tribute is no longer really considered essential. If an individual's refusal to contribute was no longer an offense, then persuading others to refuse could not be an offense. The court agreed, rescinded the fines. But it did not decide what will happen if priests in future advise their converts to defy recognized and living native laws...
...reunion," he said, "it is necessary1) to be very meek and humble, 2) to be patient and know how to wait God's hour, and 3) to insist on positive arguments, leaving aside for the moment those elements on which we differ, and to avoid discussions that may offend against the virtue of charity...