Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...independent Royal Canadian Air Force when the war started, is keeping it that way. Results have been both good and bad: the air-training program is the high spot of Canada's war effort; the Air Force has sometimes hogged both limelight and money, to the harm of general military cooperation. Canada's best military men reason that the Air Force's chief war chores (training, coastal patrol and convoy) lend themselves to separate direction. But they feel that the U. S. air services (Army and Navy) still have much to do in common with land...
...fashion of tightly laced waists, which flourished off & on for several hundred years, caused women great harm and discomfort. Despite the gibes of Satirist Montaigne and the objurgations of several French kings and of Cardinal Richelieu, ladies kept trying to cut themselves in two. In the late 18th Century, a lady had to call in both a manservant and a maidservant for the lacing job, and if she was stout the two helpers had to use a wooden crank. Ribs of these unfortunates were often so compressed that they overlapped, bringing on lung trouble, hemorrhages, other internal disorders. Two-thirds...
...Army recognizes that these agencies served nobly during World War I. But the Army also remembers that officiousness, waste, jealousy, sanctimoniousness often did Army morale more harm than good. So acute was this memory that the Army decided recently to take over all welfare and morale activities at military posts, gradually relegate outside assistance to "nearby towns and cities." In short: no more "Y" huts inside the sentry lines...
Shrewd Pierre Laval did himself no harm in getting Weygand out of the Cabinet, for it has been known around Vichy for some time that General Weygand aspired to run the French State himself, muttering, "When will the old man [Pétain] stop sleeping with that charcoal dealer [Laval] from Châteldon?" Laval further improved his position by making himself Acting President of the Cabinet, relieving Octogenarian Henri Philippe Pétain of actual contact with the Government except at full Council meetings. Also out of the Cabinet went Adrien Marquet (Interior) and Jean Ybarnégaray (Youth...
...swamp, the convicts still held out. On the morning of the second day, the convicts in the swamp sent Voncille out to bargain with the posse. They would not harm Gladys and Jerry if a car would be sent in for them, the doors open, to show that no police were hiding in it. The police refused. Shaky, but still keeping her nerve, Voncille led them to the fugitives' hideout-but after three of the convicts surrendered, and Gladys and Jerry were released, she collapsed with Gladys...