Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven co-saboteurs, including Haupt, attended a "sabotage school" at Brandenburg, near Berlin, graduated, were then U-boated to America. "We were to harm, wherever possible, all aluminum production in the United States. . . . The intent was to do the worst possible damage in this country. Our exact assignment was to damage aluminum plants of the Alcoa Company in Tennessee, California and Oregon, and to damage rail lines between these plants and war-production centers...
...Back with them to hold the funeral, over the vast distance where only six groups of white men had been in 110 years, came 37-year-old Father Gustav Henry of Brittany, a missionary to the Eskimos. Back, too, came scores of his converted Eskimos, to protect him from harm...
...Holtz, as a master of ceremonies, supplies, among other things, the only element of continuity to what might have been called "Vaudeville Incorporated." There's also a kick chorus, misnamed "The Versailles Beauties," who lamely present a tedious routine, but they don't appear often enough to do much harm...
Second was the press. Some Washington journalists, especially columnists and radio commentators, had sent out stories which were simply not based on fact. They had done the country a great deal of harm...
...challenge of total war. The literary arts haven't probed any deeper than the kindly sophistry of "The Moon Is Down," while music, judging from the late lamented "Leningrad" symphony, has little more to boast of. One thing is certain, however, the war can't do music much harm...