Word: offending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pink satin and navy pin stripe, a glossy Chivas Regal wealth versus patched jeans-adolescent revolt. It's fun to watch Treat Williams traipsing across an elaborately laid banquet table, trying to maximize shattered crystal in his path. It's not to be taken seriously, and thereby doesn't offend our sophisticated Seventies cynicism...
...turned over to the Egyptians when Cairo regains sovereignty over the Sinai. Sadat refused this, saying that it was not part of the original Camp David agreement. He argued that by giving Israel a long-term petroleum agreement, he would be granting it "favored nation" treatment. This would offend other Arab states, something he could scarcely afford...
...Jimmy Carter has grandly described as his most important appointment, James Rodney Schlesinger, has succeeded in alienating the whole Mexican government and jeopardizing negotiations with a country whose energy resources the U.S. will surely need. For those who have watched the onetime economics professor routinely offend the Congress, the oil and gas industry, consumers and even his own Department of Energy, that news is hardly a surprise. But this time Schlesinger may have gone too far. His loyal sponsor, the President, finds Schlesinger's public hard line toward the Mexicans a liability, and when the energy czar last month...
...sort of revenge upon the military. His first novel, which has earned $1.4 million in paperback, movie, bookclub and other sales, is the nastiest assault on West Point since Benedict Arnold tried to hand over its plans to the British. Dress Gray turns upon a conceit exquisitely designed to offend the rectilinear machismo of the Military Academy. It seems that there are inverts at the Point, Truscott writes. One, a model cadet named David Hand, turns up drowned, his body naked in Lake Popolopen and showing signs, in an autopsy, of recent homosexual activity. But Hand was an expert swimmer...
...deutschmarks and a hand-lettered note signed by "a bunch of crazy, swinging Argentinian guys." The note asks the school to accept the donation and build a Joseph Goebells Memorial Speech-Writing Library. The school accepts the money. Dean Ira Jackson explains. "If we reject this money, we might offend other potential donors. Right...