Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost certainly happened without consultation. They may be stuck with each other's actions, but they no longer seem to coordinate them in advance. In the future, it will be up to Western strategists to take advantage of the fact that, while Russia and China can do immense harm separately, they are as of now neither marching nor hitting together...
...language barrier is more likely ultimately to harm the scientist than it is the humanist; for while the scientist can dip into literature, criticism, and history if he is so inclined, the classicist cannot ruminate for a pleasant evening over the latest volume on automorphic functions, even were he so inclined. If the scientist cannot make contact about science with humanists, he faces the prospect of mumbling to himself about those things to which he has devoted his best energies and talents...
...bluntly told Goya that the portrait would never do and would have to be changed. In a rage, Goya started to pick up a pistol lying on a table near by, and Wellington went for his sword. "Fortunately the two great men were separated before they could do greater harm than to express their opinions of each other," wrote Mrs. Havemeyer. "Goya would never change the portrait nor allow Wellington any longer to pose for him." The artist had finished Wellington's face, and he painted the rest of the picture from a hired model...
...with bleeding and purging. It has long since been proved that there is no scientific justification for the "vogue of rest." but too many of his colleagues, says Dr. Mead, go on prescribing it, not only in cases where it does no good, but often when it does actual harm...
Oldtime physicians who bled their patients for whatever ailed them, from "the vapors" to the gout, did more harm than good. But modern medicine has not forgotten the ancient practice. A pair of New Orleans researchers reported to the American Heart Association last week that repeated small bleedings have proved effective in relieving the agonizing tightness of angina pectoris and other symptoms of coronary disease-ironically, an uncommon problem in the days of leeching and venepuncture...