Word: offending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make a proposal, a proposal which will, undoubtedly, offend many readers--but which has to be made. In my view the time is now for a glasnost in the United States--a soul searching for our own basic truths, a major debate over our current values, an honest analysis of the real structure of our society and the creation of a mechanism to search out our dreams for the future...
...countries, but unfortunately we haven't fully eliminated the mistrust. That is not surprising because in four years' ! time you cannot pull down mistrust built up over 40 years. As a Soviet military man, I am concerned by some actions of the U.S. I am saying this not to offend anyone but so that the American public will know. First, the U.S. and NATO are still pursuing a position-of-strength policy toward the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. We have elaborated a new defensive doctrine and put it into practice. We are unilaterally reducing our armed forces...
...should thank God for its geographical position. Such threatening neighbors it has -- Canada and Mexico! Don't print that. I don't want to offend the Canadians and Mexicans. The point is that Americans are living in safety. Except for nuclear weapons, an enemy cannot reach the U.S. Our political and geographical situation is completely different. We are located between Europe and Asia and are encircled by American bases. No matter what conflict might arise in the world, the U.S. can quite easily deploy its armed forces without rushing. No such thing for us. If the situation became serious...
...territory so that 70 or 80 thousand Indians could quietly go on shooting at each other with bows and arrows, shrinking heads and worshipping boa constrictors?" Saul's response is skimpy on particulars but firm in conviction: "Though we don't understand their beliefs and some of their customs offend us, we have no right to kill them...
...Roger Fenton, a well-to-do Englishman who left a career in law to devote himself to the camera. Fenton's scenes of the Crimean War, made in 1855, were discreet by the bloody standards of battlefield imagery to come: no pictures of combat, no punctured flesh that might offend Victorian sensibilities. No matter, they represented a watershed. With these views of officers at leisure and a stark gully littered with cannonballs, the curtain had gone up on the theater of combat...