Word: offending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personally during the campaign and thereby risk alienating the independent vote he needs to win. "You can't tell where votes are coming from," says Campaign Manager Paul Grindle, "so you can't irritate anyone. We've got to keep George bland. He can't offend anybody, and that includes anyone who might be offended by an attack on Teddy...
...York prayer seems to be stripped of all mention of anything that could offend any Christian denomination, the Hebrew religion or, for that matter, Mohammedanism, Confucianism, Buddhism, or any other. It is a simple recognition of the fact that there is a superior intelligence and power that governs this universe, whose blessing...
...South's best postwar novelist, George Washington Cable, who treated Negroes in a way that would do credit to any modern-day civil-righter, was hounded out of the South, and Northern publishers expurgated his works of any incidents that might offend the South...
These officials, to be sure, had a perfect right to exercise their option and refuse the film; despite much talk about public service, a television station is a commercial enterprise, and any movie about abortion will certainly offend some customers. But it is too bad that WHDH didn't take the risk. There would have been a fuss (though few people seem to mind when a "perfect crime" or a sympathetic criminal is shown on a normal program)--but it is hard to believe that a station with network programs would lose much advertising or many viewers for showing such...
...maneuvering. At first, Vinson seemed to have everything well in hand. His Armed Services Committee had voted unanimously-21 Democrats and 16 Republicans-to force the RS-70 issue. Vinson could count on the floor votes of most Democratic Congressmen unless President Kennedy personally intervened -and Kennedy, fearing to offend one of the Congress' most influential members, was reluctant to move. Vinson also thought he would have the support of most Republican Representatives on an issue that could only be embarrassing to a Democratic President...