Word: harm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beadle does not take an extreme position. "As a geneticist," he says, "I am prepared to say that fallout is biologically harmful and that we must therefore recognize a moral responsibility to humanity to reduce it to the lowest possible level." He is not sure "whether nuclear-weapons testing has a military or other benefit that outweighs the biological harm." But, like other geneticists, he knows too much to be indifferent to the problem...
...blockhouse combining a processing plant and storage vaults will soon be built. The diggings themselves consist of a hole scarcely 2 ft. deep, and 3 ft. by 12 ft. wide. The work is done entirely by hand, since emeralds-unlike diamonds, which can be put through a crusher without harm-split easily...
...world looked on with mingled relief and apprehension. The Russians were strangely silent. Dotty old Soviet President Kliment Voroshilov, 77, said De Gaulle's return would "do more harm than good," but Radio Moscow quickly repudiated the remark. Moscow was torn by the desire to let French Communists, rioting in the streets, appear defenders of the Fourth Republic against the "Fascist right,'' while hoping that De Gaulle's proud and mystic nationalism might jeopardize the harmony of the NATO alliance. Washington, too, was tactfully discreet, hoping that De Gaulle could restore his sick nation to health...
Actually, the U.S. Government has no thought of boosting the price. Reason: it would probably do more harm than good abroad. Canada, South Africa and Russia, which has a huge stockpile, would be helped. But for dozens of other nations, which owe the U.S. money, it would only mean further depletion of their already skimpy foreign reserves...
...will do you French all the harm I can." So said the pint-sized (5 ft. 2 in.), pale-faced Corsican named Buonaparte, who shunned his military schoolmates, read Plutarch in the library instead of playing games. Classmate Louis de Bourrienne also had the luck to be standing with 23-year-old Napoleon, then an out-at-the-elbow discharged officer, as he watched the howling mob sweep through the Tuileries to crown Louis XVI with the red cap of Liberty. He recorded young Buonaparte's Italian exclamation: "Che coglione! How could they let that rabble in? They should...