Word: harmfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loss of Image. As Kiesinger realizes, the rise of the rightists, who have in the past 18 months won 60 seats in state parliaments, has already done serious harm to West Germany. The Soviet Union uses the specter of a new Hitler as a pretext for blocking West Germany's attempts to bring about a reconciliation with the East bloc. Walter Ulbricht's East German regime has cited the Nazi danger as an excuse for tampering with Allied guarantees of access to West Berlin. At home, though the National Democrats poll only a relatively small percentage of votes...
...world there is a shortage of men willing and able to take on families. Polygamy thus provides the only hope of marriage for many women. "In such a socioeconomic context," writes Hillman, "the Christian insistence on an immediate change from [polygamy] to monogamy might very well cause much more harm than good. It is not at all certain that the average Christian missionary has either the mandate or the competence to change social structures that are not in them selves evil but are in fact serving constructive purposes...
...Communist Party charged that Mao Tse-tung is not a true Communist and that his policies threaten the party with extinction in China. The party ideological journal Kommunist declared that Mao's policies are "not only a matter of purely Chinese concern" and that they are "doing great harm to the cause of socialism and revolution throughout the world." Kommunist accused Mao of demanding "blind obedience and barrack-room discipline, which turns a human being into a small screw in a bureaucratic machine...
...Brennan concluded that scientific evidence had neither proved nor disproved that point. Since the court does not require that legislatures have "scientifically certain criteria for legislation," there are no grounds for a finding that the New York law "has no rational relation to the objective of safeguarding minors from harm...
Although the need for a secret society can be questioned on ideological grounds, the harm of such a group at the Law School is something which touches everybody. There is little doubt that objection to the Choate Club would be minimal if the group were composed entirely of students, or of faculty, and if the Law School were a low-key institution run on a pass-fail system. The outsiders could brush it off as "the beautiful people doing their thing." But a secret fraternal order of faculty and students does great damage at a competitive institution which justifies...