Word: offending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along with Vinson's attempt to direct the Administration to build the RS-70s; it is even less certain that the President, under the Constitution, would be required to obey. But Carl Vinson is too powerful, and too good a friend of the military and the Administration, to offend with impunity...
...satirist will probably discuss his striking respectability in a speech this Sunday, accompanying the Poets Theatre production of his one act play, Crawling Arnold, and their dramatization of his sketches. The apparent ease with which these cartoon strips can be translated into dramatic skits does not offend Feiffer the artist. Although his subtle, deceptively fine drawings will not come into play, his terse dialogue can well stand alone. And neither writer nor artist begrudge the other any success...
...curiosities straight from the African jungle. Said Sunday Nwokorie, a Nigerian studying at Atlanta University: "When I came here, Negro students asked me how many wives I had. Was I a village chief? Did I have snakes in my room? I found these questions were not intended to offend me. It was merely ignorance," Added Andrew Makhene of South Africa, another student at Atlanta University: "I have met several white college students in the South, and they never ask me such silly questions...
Boston Bloomfield, professor of English that "It is not a great literary but it should have a chance to be heard. It might shock people, but it offend them...
...kernel at the heart of the item is correct-though the details may be a little mixed. In rumor-ridden Hollywood she is respected for refusing to print a rumor if she gets a flat denial-a courtesy that not all columnists can afford. She usually punishes those who offend her by keeping them out of her column rather than lambasting them in it. But her wrath, when aroused, has always been formidable. When Producer Nunnally Johnson outraged her dignity, Lolly vented her spleen on his wife. Wrote Lolly: "I ran into Dorris Bowdon last night. She used...