Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learned about her birthday, and that I knew all about the shoes. I felt no elation at showing my hand to this charming woman. Mrs. Rommel was a grand loser. She rose from her chair. "I sincerely hope, Mr. Ryan," she said, "that you do not intend to harm my husband's reputation with this story." Then she said: "I'll show you the shoes," and left the room. Mrs. Rommel returned. In her hand were the grey suede shoes-platform shoes which had been resoled many times. She looked at me. "These are the shoes," she said...
Looking at the aftermath of the steel strike, some economists last week were swinging around to the opinion that for all the harm it did the economy, it also may have done some long-range good. Along with others. Chamber of Commerce's Schmidt pointed out that the postwar economy has averaged a recession, or at least a leveling in growth, every 30 months. But the steel strike was itself a recession; therefore, the normal setback that might have been expected has been delayed, and business should be good well into...
Rigged quizzes are nothing new-they have been going on ever since Rumpelstiltskin. The only one who came to any harm was Rumpelstiltskin himself, who had posed the question to the queen: "If you find out my name, then you shall keep your child." Her messenger gave the queen the answer, and Rumpelstiltskin tore himself in two-everybody else lived happily ever after. There must be a moral in that somewhere...
...probably this fact that makes Hal Holbrooks "Mark Twain Tonight" a particularly noteworthy show. Besides presenting Twain's genuine humor ("I'm all abstinence. . . so long as it doesn't do anyone any harm,") Holbrook doesn't hesitate to show the "darker" side of Twain, ranging from a discourse on why men really aren't the best animals in creation to more pointed and direct statements, such as humanity is a "basket of festering corruption. . . for the support and protection of microbes...
...Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Taft-Hartley injunction in the steel dispute will not end the strike; it may do harm, in fact, by obscuring the issues involved with the false reassurance of renewed production. The steel strike--the longest industry-wide stoppage in the country's history--has intensified two issues: the more immediate one of responsibility in the particular conflict of labor and management, and the general degeneration of collective bargaining between two huge economic blocs...