Word: offends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he was trying again to offend the British...
Thus did the U.S. Army find the Japanese at work building an air strip in the Aleutians. Until recently the Japanese had depended on floatplane Zeros. Now they were apparently trying to bring in their best fighters, to defend-or perhaps offend -against the growing air strength of the U.S. in the Aleutians...
...himself as a wise and statesman-like ruler," other than to express regret that a man whom I admire for years of factual reporting has joined the ranks of others who feel we could use the Emperor as a guidepost, that we must not broadcast anything overseas which would offend the son of heaven, and that we must renounce a military governorship or invasion of Japan. This unfortunate position ranks with the belief that Korea should be left to Japan as a mandate! This reflects British Imperial policy, of the days of Chamberlain, and his patented folding umbrella...
...standing in the way of such economies is OPA's and Agriculture's unwillingness to offend anybody, to upset the arbitrary restrictions and shibboleths of distributors and union drivers-like those forbidding a driver to solicit customers who had not been his before a specified date, and requiring unions to enforce a particular retail price...
Hastily, Tunesmith Berlin wired his Manhattan publishers to change "d-y" to "Negroes" in all future copies of the song. Said he: "No song is important enough to offend a whole race. I should never have released it had I known the epithet was objectionable...