Word: harm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luftwaffe did less harm to the soldiers' bodies than to their brains. Like flying tanks, the Arrado planes, cruising so insolently low, observing every confused movement of French troops and of artillery, added to the Frenchmen's sense of German omnipotence and omniscience. "It was not a war, but a hunt." Habe's captain lost his head, ordered his men into a glade which was just right "for a solitary pair of lovers and not for two companies of infantry." Once the men were nicely crowded there, their heads buried in the damp, rich ground, the German...
...railroads, install his industrial plants and operate them. He detested Communism, but kept up friendly relations with Russia. Then came August 1939 and the Russo-German Pact. Things were greater. The war started. His British oil royalties waxed. Russia and Germany bought more goods and products. Nothing could harm Iran now. More & more Germans entered the country...
...lame explanation that he did not want to "crucify" the North American local got more boos than cheers. President Roland Jay Thomas, as inept as a June bug, bumped his head against both sides. Many a cautious delegate believed that a Red purge might do U.A.W. more harm than good. But the Reuther group, angry at Frankensteen's flipflop, were out for blood...
...avail himself of contemporary psychology's invaluable contribution is neglecting an indispensable resource for effectiveness in his work. To know how character is formed, deformed and reformed is basic. . . . Because of ignorance of this available information, many ministers in dealing with personal problems are doing far more harm than good.-Harry Emerson Fosdick...
Twenty years of stale marriage did harm enough to the mature Dickens; but the wound from which he never recovered was the six months he spent as a child in a ratty London warehouse, pasting labels on bottles. "Dickens' whole career was an attempt to digest these early shocks and hardships, to explain them to himself, to justify himself in relation to them, to give an intelligible and tolerable picture of a world in which such things could occur." Wilson demonstrates that the novels are powerful and bitter social criticism; that the Dickens character gallery contains ever more pitiless...