Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe that the roots of the East-West conflict lie in exactly such situations--and that there are many of them. Obviously in this case an everly favorable image of the opponent is dangerous. The real problem is to find ways of denying a nation the capacity to harm us, without reserting to the threat of nuclear war. Solutions may involve developing alternative military or economic sanctions, proposing a mutually acceptable compromise, creating a commitment to an international Judicial body which proves so generally useful that particular disadvantageous decisions will be accepted In order to preserve the body, or finally...
...there is also another alternative open to them: this is so to demoralize the Western Powers and their public opinion as to get their way without any reciprocal concessions, unilateral or multilateral. By threatening to send rockets against the United States if we harm Cuba or against our allies if they let us mount U2 flights from their soil; by putting the squeeze on Berlin; by wild out bursts at the United Nations which may suggest to many people that Krushchev is as mad as Hitler--in these and other ways, the Soviet rulers may so terrify and disorganize...
...Peking. One of them is Francisco Juliāo, powerful leader of the Red-tinged Peasant Leagues, which battens on the misery of the rural millions in poverty-stricken northeast Brazil. After a Juliāo speech, the peasant poor now mutter grimly about land reform and sing, "What harm is there in a ship/Carrying our common Brazilian coffee/And selling it to a China/Where there is no Chiang Kai-shek...
...Jacobson's conclusion: women's noses can be bobbed without much fear of psychic harm, even if their relatively minor psychological problems are overlooked. But men are prone to "put all their eggs in one basket"-the operation-and are likely to be disappointed, angered and even vindictive toward the doctor at the results...
...defeat. Once it had been thought that if Nixon lost, he would be thrust aside in favor of a Rockefeller or a Goldwater. Instead, he emerged still a potent figure in the Republican Party. There would be many who would say that the TV debates did Nixon the most harm, giving the unknown Kennedy a chance to show himself. There would be Republican post-mortems over where an ounce of extra energy might have tipped the balance. Republicans might well wonder whether defeat came because Dwight Eisenhower had failed to dramatize the real gains of his Administration, or whether...