A bitter, nervous type, Sahl talked himself right out of two TV contracts by tactlessly placed sallies, offended network brass by opening one NBC spot with: "Well, kids, if we're .
The invitation had been extended originally to Lai Bahadur Shastri in January 1965, was put off somewhat tactlessly by Lyndon Johnson three months later, and re-extended in October.
Because the British War Office tried to get them to bite paper cartridges tactlessly greased with pork tallow 76 years ago, Moslem sepoys fought the great Indian Mutiny.