Word: harm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Hobson had planned to scuttle his ship refused to explode. The Spaniards were execrable marksmen, but they shot away his rudder chains and the Merrimac drifted helplessly past its mark into open harbor. There two Spanish torpedoes sank it in a spot where it did no one any harm...
...little triumph-if it creates over-optimism-may do harm." So hard had the Whites been stung northeast of Madrid, though they were getting an offensive under way from the south, that General Miaja doubtless feared the enemy would in exasperation use poison gas for the first time in Spain's present war. The White's blatant "Radio General" Queipo de Llano ominously broadcast that White Generalissimo Franco "has enormous supplies of gas, but will not use it, unless Madrid uses it first." In Moscow jubilant Izvestia cartooned an Italian general squealing from Spain to Mussolini for help...
...undergraduates, if not always wise as serpents, are at all events harmless as doves. They pay their addresses to young ladies in the most orthodox manner, take them out to cotillion parties, or 'Germans', as they are called, and bring them home at midnight in the dark. But no harm over comes of it, except sometimes premature espousals...
...pistols peeping from their pockets, escorted through the streets the life-size figure of the Virgin Mary belonging to their district. "We don't trust those Fascist swine!" explained one of these Reds. "They pretend to be good Catholics but we are sure they don't harm the Holy Mother of our part of Seville. Somebody fired at her last time, and you can be sure it was one of those psalm-singing Fascists, the stinking dogs!" As each of these Communists was supposed to believe with the late Great Lenin that "Religion is the opium...
...influence Macfadden in nearly every action. He played upon Mr. Macfadden's love of publicity. ... It is my firm belief that Mr. Oursler conceived and conspired with Gaston B. Means and others, the plan to take and hold for ransom the Lindbergh child (without intent to kill or harm it), only for publicity for Oursler and Mr. Macfadden. . . . "I feel sure that it was Mr. Oursler's intention, with his great influence over Mr. Macfadden-which at times borders on hypnotism-to persuade Mr. Macfadden to pay any large or fabulous reward for the child's return...