Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feels that the worship and imitation of the personal scandels of celebrities by youth has done immeasurable harm to the moral standards of the American people...
...tears fell as the war-built structure, tottering for many months, collapsed in a heap of paper forms. At the end, even its once best friends admitted that trying to keep the structure propped up would do the economy more harm than good. Said the President: "There is no virtue in control for control's sake." But he had one last word of excuse for the Government's failures-"the unworkable . . . law which the Congress gave us to administer...
...November elections pose an unpleasant question for the American Liberal--how to cast his vote where it will do the least harm to the Progressive movement. Republican campaign hoopla features undisguised "Back to Normalcy"; while the Democratic administration, which for 12 years carried the battle flag of Liberalism, is generaled by leaders whose political philosophy is almost indistinguishable from "Silent Cal" Republicanism. Neither party offers a constructive, integrated program for social or economic progress; and the strategy of both emphasizes catchy slogans at the expense of troublesome ideology...
...Wallace come to him and talk things over. Baruch had in mind Wallace's many earnest followers, to whom Wallace was a man of great and sincere ideals, who believed in Henry Wallace and everything he said. Baruch wanted to nail the errors before they did any more harm...
...difficult to say so early in the season how good we will be," says Guider, "but there are a couple of players on the Freshman squad who would not do the Varsity any harm...