Word: harmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only themselves to blame for their misery and hunger: the chief trouble is, these Indians have too many children. Mohandas Gandhi disagrees. Although he and his wife practiced complete marital continence for 30 years before her death in 1944, he abhors contraception, has declared that it produces "nothing but harm." Last week, Gandhi's youngest son Devadas, hard-hitting editor of the Hindustan Times, made a far more eloquent defense of India's birth rate...
...Myers, who had shared office with Curran for nine years, announced that he would not run again in next month's N.M.U. elections. Owing to an oversight, said Blackie sleekly, his dues had been paid late and he feared that "this technicality could be used ... to disrupt and harm the union." But Curran, McKenzie and Smith were still on the ticket...
Nobody took him seriously-the ghost of Welch's rented goat trailed through the years. But the memory did him no harm. Washington, a state which likes some fun with its politics, re-elected him with showy majorities...
...quick shift to the offense, Moscow accused Canadian Prime Minister King of launching an "unbridled anti-Soviet campaign . . . aimed at inflicting political harm on the Soviet Union." Echoed Pravda: "Mr. King barged out to give aid to Mr. Bevin who put the British Government into a difficult position with his speeches ... at the United Nations...
...every visiting foreign athlete. He does not smoke, prefers milk to whiskey, tries to be in bed by 8 p.m., cannot understand why there is no horse-steak oh U.S. menus. On his one nightclub excursion, he got a satisfying eyeful of American girls, cautiously explained: "It does not harm to look, no?" A rabid jazz fan, he keeps his hotel-room radio going steadily for entertainment, sings above it his current favorite-"The Hatchayson, Topeka and the Santa...