Word: offending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shell roof of the Olympic basketball court. A fleet of five truck-trailer, mobile public rest rooms is still under construction for the Olympic games area (nobody seemed to have included enough public toilets in the original building plans), and in the hope of stopping a practice that might offend foreign guests, posters are going up in the subways, pleading: "Let's refrain from urinating in public." The $19.4 million Shiba Prince Hotel and the $38 million Otani Hotel are racing to join the already finished Tokyo Hilton and Okura...
...A.B.A. plan. Although there is a vacancy in the vice-presidency now-for the 16th time in U.S. history*-the Congress seems likely to ignore the amendment this year. It would call undue attention in a campaign year to President Johnson's 1955 heart attack, and it might offend the men who are in line to succeed Lyndon Johnson: House Speaker John McCormack, 72, and Senate President Pro Tempore Carl Hayden...
...dropouts squirm. It does. Several West Coast disk jockeys told Sherman that they won't play the song during peak audience hours, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. That's when the dropouts are still moping around the house wondering what trouble to get into. Mustn't offend them...
...HUNGARY is hospitable to Western in fluence, as long as it does not offend its rulers by being openly antiCommunist. Budapest's relatively relaxed ways are largely the result of efforts by Premier Janos Kadar to erase the bloody stains of 1956, when he personally called in Soviet tanks to crush the revolution. Finding that a lighter yoke yields greater economic prosperity and less political opposition, he has given key managerial jobs to nonparty technicians-and fired inefficient Red bureaucrats. In Budapest coffeehouses the twist has given way to the bossa nova and the Madison. Restrictions against travel have...
Since 1958 his O'Day Corp. has been turning out stubby Fiberglas boats for amateur sailors that offend his sensibili ties ("They look like unwashed bath tubs," O'Day admits wryly) but have sold fast enough to make him the world's largest builder of sailboats under...