Word: harm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flesh. In London, the Anglican magazine Prism urged an investigation of British-made horror movies, but mildly suggested that nudist movies cannot long tempt the faithful, because sitting through bare-skin epics "produces a tedium so oppressive that it seems impossible that they can do harm: rather, they seem to give a hint of the timelessness of hell...
...there may be more jiggling of rates when holiday financing steps up and the steel strike ends. But, he says hopefully, "there is a good likelihood that the worst pressure on rates is past. A sustained strong upward force is unlikely." He does not think that tight money will harm the boom: "The supply of money and credit is not exhausted. The banking system is heavily loaned, but not loaned up." He is not concerned about high money rates, points out that for long periods short-term rates wrere actually above long-term yields. Says...
...ploy didn't work. Langelle refused to talk about his embassy work. The Russian., threatened him with what the official U.S. note of protest politely called "physical violence," warned him that harm could come to his wife Miriam and their three small children. At length the Russians promised him money if he would spy on U.S. diplomats. After an hour and 45 minutes of this, the Russians gave up, let him loose at the corner where they captured...
...Fight Promoter Jackie Leonard testified that Palermo had demanded a piece of the earnings of Welterweight Don Jordan shortly before he became champion in December. Leonard said that Palermo's demands were later backed up by Carbo himself, added that he began getting phone calls threatening bodily harm ("It'll be with a pipe wrapped in a paper sack"). But Manager Don Nesseth, 33, had flatly refused to knuckle under, and, according to the indictment, Leonard had handed over only $1,725. After the hearings, Leonard landed in a hospital, claimed that he had been bludgeoned while closing...
...SUPRAD investigators and Lexington teachers believe that many learning activities on the grade school level, such as group singing and listening to a report or program, are such that little, if any, harm would be done if they were conducted en masse. Making class size flexible should also render much easier the institution of homogeneous and heterogenous grouping and individual instruction in the elementary grades...