Word: harm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist settled confidently into the witness chair in Manhattan's federal courtroom last week and started his familiar spiel. Witness Anthony Krchmarek, a minor Communist functionary from Ohio, had come to lend his assurance that the party would not harm even a flea, much less overthrow a Government. He soon found himself talking into the teeth of some expert testimony from a fellow Ohioan: William Cummings, a Toledo auto worker who had spent six years among the Communists as an undercover agent...
...Obviously, it would be ridiculous for anyone to be loyal to those people who do him harm and wish him evil. Such people are his enemies. Even animals recognize their enemies and make war on them or at least defend themselves...
...heart. At the 69th Annual Session of the American Medical Association on June 12, 1947, he said: "It has been our experience, over a period of years, that most patients with a cardiac disorder, including those with disease of the coronary arteries, can smoke moderately without apparent harm. In fact, for many, smoking not only affords pleasure but aids in promoting emotional stability...
...University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins could see nothing but harm coming from this "cloak-and-stiletto work . . . [It] will not merely mean that many persons will suffer for acts that they did not commit, or for acts that were legal when committed, or for no acts at all. Far worse is the end result, which will be that critics, even of the mildest sort, will be frightened into silence . . ." Loyalty oaths for teachers are utterly useless, said Hutchins, "for teachers who are disloyal will certainly be dishonest; they will not shrink from a little perjury...
...such problem exists here at Harvard; and when it comes to the possible presence of secret members of the Party on the teaching staff of an institution. I can only endorse what has been so well said by Grenville Clark in has recent letter to Mr. Ober, namely. "The harm done by the effort to discover even a single clandestine Party member would out weigh any possible benefit...