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  • Local Cucumber Billboard For Sara's Secret Offends Some North Texans - wjz.com: At first glance, it looks like a cartoon character.

    Archive 2010-01-24 Bill Crider 2010

  • It is telling that the poet who struck a chord with Americans after 9/11 -- "The unmentionable odour of death/Offends the September night" -- was W.H. Auden, British-born and long deceased.

    Bards at the Inaugural Gates 2009

  • Obama Offends Conservative with “Mutt” Remark »

    It’s Foreign Policy, Stupid 2008

  • News at Eleven: Suddenly, 62 years after the poem's composition, "the unmentionable odour of death/Offends the September night" in Manhattan--not as distant metaphor but as hideously local fact.

    News at Eleven: Suddenly, 62 years after Rus Bowden 2007

  • Offends her father by her behaviour to Solmes in his presence.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Offends her father by her behaviour to Solmes in his presence.

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 Samuel Richardson 1725

  • New 'Crazy' Burger King Commercial Offends Mental Health Advocacy Organizations attracted criticism from mental health organizations for depicting the King as "crazy."

    Eater National Greg Morabito 2010

  • A follow-up commentary in the German press captures the situation in its headline: "Merkel Offends East Europeans" (Financial Times Deutschland, January 30).

    British Blogs 2009

  • Offends Obama's anti-war base, the first large group to endorse his candidacy.

    Vox Verax 2009

  • Television / Obama Visits Leno, Offends Special Olympics made history last night when became the first sitting president to appear on a late-night talk show.

    EveryJoe 2009

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