Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oblique Swipe. Far from putting the Eisenhower Administration in a bad light, Lyndon's blunder in bringing up the case only highlighted some grave defects in his own security and personnel procedures. Still, Lyndon seemed confident that the Jenkins case could do him no harm, pointed to those reassuring polls in his coat pocket as proof. Even the week after Jenkins' resignation, one nationwide survey showed that Lyndon's popularity had gone up -not down-two points...
Although the report stresses that late football parietals do not cause "wild parties and drunken driving," it also argues that lower attendance at House dances would do little harm...
...Harvard the contest is a crucial one, since the Crimson's record is already blemished by a scoreless tie with Columbia, and a loss today would seriously harm the Crimson's chances for a fourth straight League championship...
Though the movie follows roughly the same plot, the darkly gleaming heart of it has undergone major surgery. In a postscript to his play, Dürrenmatt wrote: "Nothing could harm this comedy with a tragic end more than heavy seriousness." Director Bernhard Wicki falls into that error, compounding it with a gimmicky screenplay. The eunuchs, the coffin, and much of the mordant wit are omitted, as is the wooden leg. The sex angle is fattened up with a juicy subplot. And to make the slow corrosion of conscience more graphic, the good burghers of Guellen struggle against...
...dryly pointed out that if Mary were to be titled "Mother of the Church," which is the mother of men, she becomes everybody's grandmother. And Augustin Cardinal Bea, of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, argued that any title implying a new Marian doctrine would do grave harm to the cause of ecumenism...