Word: offends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hong Kong, Canada's Trade Commissioner Max Forsyth Smith saw an opportunity to unload some of Canada's surplus wheat. Canada has not recognized Mao Tse-tung, and has no wish to offend the U.S. by doing so. But many Canadians blame the U.S.'s "dumping" of surplus wheat for Canada's own mountainous surplus. At week's end, with the approval of the government in Ottawa, Forsyth Smith prepared to go to Peking to see how much hard-pressed Mao Tse-tung would pay for a few million tons...
...over the Democratic civil rights applecart, Kennedy's Southern friends have been begging him to back out. Their argument: anything Kennedy would say that was faintly conciliatory to the South would be used against him in the North, yet if he spoke the Northern view he would necessarily offend his Southern supporters. Jack Kennedy disagreed: he felt that he had to live up to his speaking commitment and, further, that he had to speak out on civil rights. Last week he did both with auspicious political results...
With a nervous eye on Moscow (whose press gave the meeting minimal coverage), the two "nationalist Communists" said nothing aloud to offend the Russians. Gomulka was careful to pay thanks to "the heroic Soviet army" for Poland's liberation from the Nazis, and to make regular reference to "the solidarity of international socialist forces." Yet the fact of their meeting was evidence of more cracks in the once monolithic unity of Kremlin Communism...
...deep run the divisions within Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury's government that the ministers themselves could not agree between two proposals before them, and in the final draft left all points of difference vague and unresolved. Said one French Deputy: "We cannot make war because it would offend...
Left, and we cannot make peace because it would offend the Right...