Word: harmfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee to approve the bill's much-debated public-accommodations section, which would guarantee Negroes equal access to hotels, restaurants and similar privately owned facilities catering to the public. "The affronts and denials that this section, if enacted, would correct are intensely human and personal. Very often they harm the physical body, but always they strike at the root of the human spirit. From the time [Negroes] leave home in the morning en route to school or to work, to shopping or to visiting, until they return home at night, humiliation stalks them...
...justifiably sharp criticisms. They were well summed up by the usually temperate New York Times: "The author of Profiles in Courage has run away from a tough decision to embrace a politically easy one. President Kennedy has taken the easy way out, and a way that can only do harm to the country, the railroads, and, in the long run, to labor as well...
...generation ago, labeling was usu ally unimportant because only a few medicines were potent enough to do much harm. But many of today's high-powered drugs, taken by the wrong patient or at the wrong time, can maim or kill as readily as they can cure. The most notorious example is thalidomide, which was freely sold as a harmless tranquilizer and sleeping pill...
...plant. After it has run for a while, the fuel in its core (Con Ed plans to use 113 tons of uranium oxide) is contaminated with fiercely radioactive fission products. If this unpleasant stuff got spread around the countryside by any sort of explosion, it would do as much harm as the fallout from an atom bomb. Millions of people live within a few miles of Con Ed's projected installation. To reduce this danger to a minimum, the plant proposed for the Borough of Queens, on New York's East River, will have fantastically elaborate safeguards...
...real effect of the suspension will not be a decrease in college smoking. Rather there will be a decrease in control by the companies over college smoking tastes and severe financial difficulties for college publications. Instead of helping college students, the sudden suspension will work great harm...