Word: detriment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work of the courts as it affects them, their respect for law will survive the shortcomings of every other branch of government; but if they lose their respect for the work of the courts, their respect for law and order will vanish with it, to the great detriment of society...
Even in its cut version, The Wages of Fear is a film so sophisticated in evil that it is for grown-ups only-the people who have a right to know what is being said, and said with power and conviction, to their detriment in other parts of the world...
Youth is continuing to neglect football and other healthful contact sports to the detriment of its future," Coach Lioyd Jordan said Saturday...
...Suppose the question is: 'Did you pick X's pocket and steal his wallet?' Only a 'Yes' answer could be incriminating, and if the witness claims his privilege, the fair inference is that he must be a pickpocket and a thief. That natural inference might be drawn to his detriment in the ordinary affairs of life--for instance, a bank might conclude that such a person could hardly be a good risk for employment as a teller, if he has got himself in such a fix that he cannot answer a question like that. The only place inference cannot...
...followed an Army announcement last week that it was filing charges against Corporal Edward S. Dickenson. former P.W. in Korea who switched to Communism and then switched back (TIME. Nov. 2). The charges: that Corporal Dickenson dealt "directly and indirectly" with the enemy and sought "favorable treatment" to the detriment of his fellow prisoners. Dicken son. who was in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital for his final Army physical examination, found himself, without ad vance warning, in a locked room under guard. And a little later, the Marine Corps announced that a board of inquiry had been formed...