Word: harm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grievous Harm. Last week razors were out again at the entrance to a nightclub off Berkeley Square. This time the cutting scrape involved one Tommy Falco, known to be a close friend of Billy Hill, who was just leaving the club, and−once again−Jack Spot, who, according to Tommy, jumped out at him from a darkened doorway and worked him over. At week's end, fingered by Falco, Jack Spot was in jail on charges of "causing grievous bodily harm," and Scotland Yard breathed slightly easier. "If we can just get Spot sent...
Even before the strike started in Italy's two biggest exchanges, Milan and Turin, it was evident that the new law might do more harm than good. Turnover on the Milan exchange, fifth most important in the world (after New York, London, Paris, Zürich), had shrunk from last year's daily average of 3,000,000 shares to 300,000 before the strike. Although Italian industry is humming at record pitch, the value of stocks listed on the Milan board has been sliced one-third (to 2 trillion lire) since the tax measure was passed...
...much worried about nuclear-weapons tests. "High-yield" thermonuclear explosions toss radioactive material into the stratosphere, where it hangs for years drifting around the earth. The tests also raise the radio active level of large areas of ocean. But these effects are slight, and will do no appreciable harm unless the tempo of bomb testing is increased many times over. There is nothing, say the scientists, to the popular idea that bomb testing has upset the world's weather...
...photographer, and assigned City Editor Joe Azbell to act as guide and chauffeur. Poston hit it off so well with the staff that he told them a story on himself. He had instructions, he said, to phone Editor Wechsler every day with assurance that he had come to no harm. Poston added that he had got lost on Montgomery streets one night, and two white children had taken the trouble to lead him three blocks to a telephone...
...Eisenhower early Friday morning, he felt pains in the lower quarter of his abdomen. At the first call from Mamie Eisen hower, Presidential Physician Howard McCrum Snyder, knowing his longtime patient's susceptibility to indigestion, prescribed milk of magnesia ; he figured hope fully that it could do no harm and might bring the upset to a quick end. But as Ike's discomfort became gradually worse, Snyder went to the White House to sit up the rest of the night with him. The President vomited repeatedly, and Dr. Snyder now knew that something worse than a stomach upset...