Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trashifying literature." Along with Hollywood he lumped "the best-seller system and the book clubs which tend to standardize reading tastes on a mediocre level. Writers go to Hollywood thinking they can improve the medium. They can't. The medium destroys them. The compromise always works to their detriment. This is particularly bad for talented young writers who can't resist Hollywood gold at a time when they would normally be struggling along on a shoestring. Money corrupts them. They are not free. Finally they settle down to the Hollywood formula...
...main flaws are, actually, those of the novel. The main difference is that while Frederic Wakeman had a Message, and to the detriment of his novel, spelled it out in overly large letters for Book-of-the-Month Club buyers, the moviemakers have felt impelled almost to club his point home to any cretin who wanders into the theater. Despite this fact, you will find yourself in sympathy with the bright young man who makes his way in the "game" with a front compounded of sincere ties and a fetching spiel. You will find it not at all difficult...
...independent and five A.F.L. maritime unions, meeting in Washington, roundly rejected "Communists as traitors to the nation and a detriment to the solid permanency of a United States merchant marine...
...following the difficulties encountered by the American Military government in its program of denazification, "Temper the Wind" seeks to uncover the selfish and villaninous forces at work in Germany. These groups play on the political ignorance and homesickness of the American troops to the obvious detriment of the peace. World-wide cartels operated by blind Americans and undercover Nazis destroy the work of the AMG and are only defeated by their ruthlessness that incites a murderous riot. Anti-nazi Germans are killed before they can re-educate their people, stiff-necked Nazis, recently shorn of their Charlie Chaplin mustaches, slither...
Democratic Party, has been accused of using his political connections to the detriment of small fishermen. This hurts Nick. He confesses that packers, including himself, "cotch too damn many feesh" to maintain present sources of supply. "My interest [in the Explorer]," he recently protested in a ghostwritten letter, "[is] for the postwar stability of the industry, to develop new grounds and methods...