Word: harmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally admitted as "gate crashers." George Bernard Shaw declined with thanks, cracked: "I suffered too much from the celebrations at my own 70th birthday 16 years ago to make myself a party to the same outrage at the expense of an old friend who has never done me any harm...
They Wanted Prisoners. The chief of the islanders gave pantsless Captain Davis a sarong. Other natives ignored the Japanese fire, plied the Marines with coconuts and coconut juice, told them where the Japs were concentrated. Three times during the day Jap bombers came over, did more harm to their own forces than to the Marines. U.S. machine-gunners on the shore destroyed two planes which landed in Makin's still lagoon...
...distance. Those who rejoice at 'Ham' Fish's renomination, from 1,000 miles away, are far more likely to be Nazi sympathizers or appeasers than the neighbors who vote for him because they regard him as a likable blunderer who doesn't mean any harm...
According to tests made on the fluid, it will neither harm the strength or structure of the wood, while it prevents fungi, takes a coat of paint readily, and has many other distinct advantages over all other kinds which have been invented to date. In tests made with incendiary bombs, the wood remained intact while untreated wood was completely destroyed in a few minutes...
Fascist-fighter Ingersoll, 41, told his board that he had two dependents (a divorced wife and an invalided family servant) but insisted that he wanted to serve wherever he could do the Axis most harm. The board, without going into its reasons, decided he could do most harm in the Army. Then, to Ingersoll's declared surprise, his employer, wealthy Marshall Field, wired Selective Service Director Hershey asking that Ingersoll be deferred because he was essential to PM and PM was essential to public morale...