Word: offending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...third approach might be termed the retainer approach. For the average student it has the most potentialities. But it must be used skillfully, since it might offend the sensibilities of the professor. Perhaps an example will illustrate the point. This example though happening at a college other than Harvard is being adopted as a case by Organization Control Dept. as a means of securing cooperation. Here is the story...
...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...
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...