Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sullen, restive. He has not a strong friend abroad, and precious few at home. Of the two powerful allies who forged his victory, Italy lies prostrate, the battleground of foreign armies; Germany, no longer able to do him any real good, still has the means to work him grievous harm. In an economic sense he is living on the measured bounty of the "Western Pluto-democracies," which he once scorned for their weakness...
...building and sell the deal for $18,000-$20,000." In that way he 1) put up 259 buildings, including a score of San Francisco's cinemas; 2) kept his own growing fortune strictly liquid. The Hale-Penney deal did nothing to harm his finances...
...Italian Government . . . with the object of avoiding further and more grievous harm to the nation, has requested an armistice from General Eisenhower. . . . This request has been granted. The Italian forces will therefore cease all acts of hostility against the Anglo-U.S. forces. . . . They will, however, oppose attack from any other quarter...
...Chinese physicist, Miss Chien Shiung Wu. In perfect English, Kusaka declared his opposition to the Emperor of Japan but, as shy as he was able, preferred not to enter the controversy. The staid Springfield Republican, said: "Come, let us be reasonable. The protest was . . . injudicious. . . .Tolerance . . . will do no harm...
...Hard to forgive is the implied comparison ... of the regrettable Benito with Mr. Toad (TIME, Aug. 9). I have known Toad for 25 years, and I resent the slur upon his good name. He is a windbag, no doubt, but generous and lovable, with no harm...