Word: offends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just weren't so scathing, Izzy, if you only tempered your stuff a little. If you stopped always making your subscribers so damn mad. . ." But Stone isn't interested. He considers getting your readers mad at you part of the secret of good journalism. He has no advertisers to offend and doesn't worry about his opponents to the right. Instead, he sees himself supplying ammunition to men who feel very like he does, covering the hotter subjects--the stories "safe" liberals file away, picking up the pieces on the edges, ones that don't fit into into the Establishment...
...Professor Alfred Rieg said that it fails to require crucial proof that "an act has been capable of causing a scandal." At this stage of changing mores, he added, "one cannot seriously claim that the nudity of a feminine bosom on a beach is of a nature to offend the decency of those...
Newman upheld TV's right to Milquetoast programming, even on newscasts: "I don't think it's realistic to expect organizations that live by advertising to pioneer in fields that may offend people." With some justice, he made news brevity on TV a virtue: "One reason we have such a great impact is that we edit. We edit to a degree that I think it is fair to say the New York Times does not. It doesn't edit very often; it compiles...
United States foreign policy is determined, not by what is sound, but by what will least offend our own special-interest groups. John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics has charged in an article in the February Atlantic...
...Sahara for $105 and set him free. And who is to blame for the traffic in human beings in Africa and the Middle East? Who else but the U.S., which, Maugham says, cares only for her "vast oil interests. Britain does nothing because she does not want to offend Washington...