Word: harmfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Lords cheered as Viscount Swinton belabored him with "We suffer not from an act of God, but the inactivity of Emanuel." Shinwell got a bomb threat, and Scotland Yard put four constables around his small house in Tooting. Tooted Mrs. Shinwell: "Let them try to harm him!" Would her husband resign (as the Tory press had demanded and some Laborites had privately suggested)? Said Mrs. Shinwell: "I don't see why. I should like to see the man who could do the job better...
...position to compare those years with our times. He sees one big difference: after the first war the feeling of unrest and scapegoating was directed at many targets--such "symbolic villains" as the IWW, byphenated Americans, and the Bolsheviks. Because of this there was no great harm, since enmities were diffuse and scattered. Today, though, he sees the unrest and scapegoating focused on one target--Communism, and finds it a warlike and ominous attitude...
...Zivic, as a master of the art of the foil, is able to spar his way out of physical harm's way. But in so doing, he leaves a trail of dissatisfied fans behind. ... He has had more than his day in the ring and his honored name can only be tarnished by a continuance of his present performances. ..." A Zivic fight in Tampa was called...
...usual, the press played up the human drama. The real purpose of the sessions was undoubtedly sincere, but politically wise President Gonzá1ez knew that the publicity would do his regime no harm...
Sawing & Skiing. Work details at Cardigan are voluntary; goldbricks who shirk them get a cold shoulder from their buddies, but no other punishment. Cardigan officially frowns on "highly competitive sports [which] do more harm than good" for younger boys, gives them plenty of hiking, fishing, skating and skiing instead. On its 140 acres, the school also owns an old mill with a water-driven saw, where students will make furniture under the eye of a teacher who used to be foreman in a furniture shop...