Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prohibiting discrimination in choosing federal, state or local juries, empowering the Attorney General to initiate school-desegregation suits, and forbidding intimidation or physical harm to civil rights workers and voters...
...result of S.N.C.C.'s new militancy. He has refused to parrot the black-power line, explaining: "I'm not prepared to give up my personal commitment to nonviolence." He argues that the Mississippi march, which Carmichael tried to dominate, may have done the civil rights cause more harm than good...
Assistant School Superintendent William G. Tobin quashed the chance that the more moderate of the Center's redistricting alternatives might at least get further consideration when he told the School Committee, "No part of this plan is educationally defensible; in my opinion, it does more harm than good...
...inventing an electric razor, singing in a national radio contest. Nothing worked. Then, as he later told the judge, "I suddenly remembered the theory of my professor of political economics at the University of Danzig. He said that a man who lights a cigar with his bank note is harming the entire society, for every bill in circulation contributes to the wealth of the society. Stretching the theory just a bit, one might well say that the man who makes a false bill and introduces it into circulation is doing society no harm...
...German diplomats whose reports are so crucial to his thesis. Von Bergen, for example, was an ambitious professional diplomat who hoped for promotion in Germany's foreign service. Von Weizsacker was an anti-Nazi Protestant who apparently wished to prevent Hitler from taking any action that would harm Pius personally...