Word: offending
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Delighted to Offend. Across the nation, many citizens in and out of government shared Aiken's wariness toward the test ban treaty. Before boarding the Queen Elizabeth for a "nostalgic" trip to England and the Normandy beaches, former President Eisenhower counseled caution, pointed out that after atmospheric tests were halted in the 1958 moratorium, it was the Russians who first resumed testing. Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper wanted to know why, after the Russians had rejected a test ban treaty for five years, "suddenly there is a clear sky, the treaty is wrapped up in a week...
...felt that seizure would inflict a gross injustice upon the railroad companies, which had accepted every Government proposal advanced during the four years of the dispute. But Kennedy was also aware that compulsory arbitration-which would almost certainly result in an affirmation of management's position-would offend organized labor, and he did not want to take the political risks...
...were singled out and criticized by Dr. Bernhard Olson, a Methodist who teaches at Union Theological Seminary. In a new book, Faith and Prejudice (Yale; $7.50), Olson shows how religious-text writers have often carried teaching beyond the statement of the essential doctrines into the terrain of slurs that offend other faiths...
...English professor who addressed his freshman class five years ago is now Provost of the University, a position second in authority to that of the Chancellor. His ideas on the purpose of the university have not changed, and throughout the turmoil, the administration, though exercising discretion not to offend the state legislature which, for better or for worse, controls the purse strings of the university, has seen that these ideas have continued in effect...
Whether intentionally or not, the Debate Council was put in the embarrassing position of having to choose between a desire to debate Bishop and a desire not to offend the host club. The Council members did not realize that University policy was not determined by alumni opinion until Dean Watson told them so explicitly Sunday night...