Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marc A. Slotnick '64, former HCUA member and organiser of the sale, termed the Dean's decision an "unnecessary inconvenience." "I don't agree that a gathering would have caused any harm," he said, "especially in light of the cold, rainy weather and the fact that the sale was set for 6:30 p.m., a time when many students are eating dinner...
...Salinger has the covert support of State Assembly Speaker Jesse ("Big Daddy") Unruh, perhaps the ablest politician in the state. Salinger's past association with Jack Kennedy is doing him no harm. He is slowly overcoming his image as a "carpetbagger" who was born in San Francisco but had not lived in California for seven years (he was a Virginia resident when he jumped into the Senate race). Occasionally, however, when the brass bands strike up California Here 1 Come or P.S. I Love You, a comic in the crowd suggests a rendition of Carry Me Back...
...cardinal was calling "my nearest and dearest friend, the late John F. Kennedy, a Communist." That, as it turned out, was something the Birchers had not done, and Gushing retracted again. Said he: "Because of my own dedication to the fight, I certainly do not want to do any harm to fellow battlers...
...million in five years. Continental got into the business in 1954 by hiring away a Lloyd's expert named Vincent S. McKerrow, who now heads Continental's special-risks department, which has branches in 16 cities. Under McKerrow, Continental has insured a railroad against any harm that might be caused by two Siberian tigers being shipped to a St. Paul zoo, also insured members of a private New Orleans club against excessive bodily harm caused by the Mardi Gras festivities. Luck and nerve as well as experience are important, but Continental generally shuns such risks as traveling carnivals...
...fierce argument, from village councils to the halls of Congress. Laws were proposed on local, state and federal levels to put rigid restrictions on the use of pesticides. Some of them were so sweeping that if they had been passed and enforced, they might very well have caused serious harm. In advanced modern societies, agriculture and public health can no longer manage without chemical pesticides...