Word: harmfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bank examiner. He startled Webb and Pace with his grasp of budget problems. He piqued military chieftains by refusing to raise the lid on the $15 billion limit which he had clamped on 1949 military expenditures. He was firmly convinced that a larger amount would do more harm than good to the nation's economic structure...
Even if your painting flops completely, Churchill philosophically concluded, there is no harm done except to your own ego. "And then you can always go out and kill some animal, humiliate some rival on the links, or despoil some friend across the green table...
...assassinated in 1947 and, along with almost every pundit, that Truman would be beaten in 1948. He has not yet lived down his 1946 "disclosure" that U.S. troops had sired 14,000 Japanese bastards-though the G.I.s had been in Japan only six months. Such bobbles did little harm. But his campaign to bring the boys home in 1945 was more serious. Insofar as it succeeded, it weakened the hand of the State Department around the world...
...This brought Pearson his closest brush with physical violence. In the House restaurant, Texas' Congressman Nat Patton (no kin to the general) beerily waved a knife under Pearson's nose until Maury Maverick interceded and eased Pearson out of harm...
...protect the owl; his Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to the Owl will last only until he obtains at least 100 names for his petition. The five-man society sent a letter of approval to Ludlow Griscom, Research Curator of Zoology, thanking him for his donial of the harm done by the owl. (Griscom previously had said the owl didn't touch Yard squirrels...