Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government, then lay the basis for cooperation. This the Russians tried to do in Finland in 1939, but were thwarted. Second possibility: let the country have whatever government it has or seems to want, but weaken the country strategically and economically to the point where it could not possibly harm Russia. This the Russians did to Finland in March 1940, when the taking of Viipuri, Hango and the Saimaa Canal placed Finland in a dependent position. But the 1941 world situation interrupted Russian plans and Finland became just that place d'armes which Russia did not desire...
...meeting, e.g., kidney stones, habitual constipation, prostate trouble, bed sores, muscle spasm. The only patients for whom the assembled doctors thought that absolute bed rest might be allowable were: 1) the victims of a few such diseases as pulmonary tuberculosis, and 2) children, to whom it does little harm...
...hate being regimented and restricted and ordered around and bawled out and ignored and insulted. I want to live and work and love in any way I please, and I want everyone else in this world to have that same privilege so long as he doesn't harm me or those I love in the process. . . . Why haven't we the intelligence and common sense to build a world order where these stupid and brutal wars would be impossible? . . . It seems that even a fool could see the necessity of a strong world organization to keep the peace...
...This training . . . can be best done in a sort of school or college where others . . . are learning to be blind. . . . Haphazard and casual training in the home often does more harm than good...
...atrocities earlier? Why had they chosen this particular time to publicize them? White House Secretary Steve Early gave an official reason: the U.S. has given up hope of getting further relief to the remaining prisoners of the Japs. Publication of the atrocities now could do the prisoners no added harm...