Word: offending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sudan went to the polls. Arbitrarily assigned symbols to represent their candidacies because of the south's almost universal illiteracy, candidates beamed if they had drawn such favorable ones as an elephant or a cow, moaned if they had been assigned a picture of a bottle, which could offend Moslem teetotalers, or a disembodied human leg, which has connotations of cannibalism. In a few districts, no one was bold enough to present himself as a candidate; in almost all, dire threats were made against those who voted. For months, the south has been torn by a Mau Mau-like...
...television. Or rather the most talked-about, for he either outrages viewers or spills them laughing on the floor. "The amusing thing about Alf," says BBC Director-General Sir Hugh Greene (brother of Novelist Graham Greene), "is the intense fury aroused among those who share his prejudices. The program offends a great many people-but those one is glad to offend...
...organizers also felt that a union--especially one connected with the AFT--would have a straight wages-and-hours bias both inappropriate for the university community and inadequate for the variety of issues to be considered. They worried that the concept of trade unionism also might offend some teaching fellows, who often consider themselves professionals or future professionals...
...would not offend my patriotic sensibilities," Cavanagh noted. "if we fell two and a half years rather than two years behind the Russians in the space race...
...Strauss, the burly boss of the Bavarian branch of the party, which had publicly endorsed Kiesinger the day before. Another was that he fitted the C.D.U.'s concept of a candidate by being not too Gaullist to alienate the party's Atlanticists and not too Catholic to offend the Protestants. But the main factor in Kiesinger's success was that, as a man of moderate, flexible views, he seemed to stand the best chance of forming a coalition with either the Socialists or the Free Democrats. Said he: "I hope for success in forming a solid...