Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garden rally sponsored by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. While spotlights beat down on him, he launched an oblique attack on the U.S.: "[U.N.s'] early activities have revealed a tendency on the part of certain countries to play a dominating part in the organization to the detriment of the cause of peace and security." His audience of 18,000 cheered him to the roof. Outside the Garden, the cops boredly walked their beat, chomped their gum, guarding Mr. Gromyko's right to freedom of speech...
...This year is not a good time for Americans to study abroad for a good many reasons, with food as the strongest detriment." This was the answer of the Institute of International Education, the main channel of information about foreign education systems, to a request by the CRIMSON for information about the chances of Americans going to continental Europe to study during the next six months...
...Russia with glowing tributes to Stalin ("this truly great man") and the Russian people (whose friendship "should not only be preserved but expanded"). He went on: "Any idea of Britain's deliberately pursuing an anti-Russian policy or taking part in the making of combination to the detriment of Russia is thoroughly opposed to British thought and conscience...
...will now start on Nov. 15. ¶ The committee will not waste time junketing to Pearl Harbor. ¶ All Army & Navy personnel will be free to testify without any fear of subsequent court-martial or detriment to their future promotion. ¶ The question of whether or not Cordell Hull's blast of Nov. 26, 1941 actually set off the war (as the Army Pearl Harbor Board had charged) was apparently settled; it did not. Navy Secretary Forrestal reported the finding of documents in a sunken Jap vessel which showed that the Pearl Harbor attack had been approved...
...starving. This was not only bigheartedness on Canada's part. In the long haul, said Jim MacKinnon, Canada would benefit by being generous. "Higher wheat prices [now] would encourage the importing countries in a hurried return to wheat production" of their own, to Canada's ultimate detriment. There was a domestic reason for the decision as well: it would hold the line against inflation...