Word: harmfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Letters to the Editor. China's press and leaders suddenly became articulate about the plight of patient lao ping. Said General Feng Yu-hsiang: "The military set-backs will do us more good than harm. The more defeats we suffer, the more daring is the press in expressing its opinions. Previously we knew little about the fact that our soldiers were underfed and thinly clad." In a national campaign to "comfort the troops," great sums of money were collected. Little was donated direct to the Government for disbursement by slow-moving bureaucrats. But millions of Chinese dollars (on current...
...only harm the picture can do is create a misconception of Dr. George Gallup in the popular imagination: he's not at all the stuffed-shirt as represented in "Heavenly Days," and he doesn't go around looking for the "Average American"--he leaves that to Crockett Johnson's Mr. O'Mally, who is considerably more mature in his humor than Fibber McGee of Wistful Vista...
...read the reports of their separate courts of inquiry. They had searched their consciences, consulted with the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet and the Judge Advocate Generals of the Army & Navy and had reached this conclusion: publication of the reports now would do the country more harm than good...
...wouldn't harm a poor mendicant monk? B: Certainly I would, if he came monking around my wife...
...navel - he found that the shilling-sized hole nicked out of her intestine had be come fixed against the corresponding hole in her abdominal wall, so that no contaminating material could touch the vulnerable abdominal lining. Such material trickled out through the wound, where it could do comparatively little harm. Wrote the Captain admiringly: "In her successful management of this case, Nature endorses the principles at present advocated for the immediate surgical treatment of such an injury." All that remained to be done was to separate gut and abdominal wall, stitch up the gut, clean and dress the wound...