Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours of debate engaging in tomfoolery. For example, Virginia's Judge Howard Smith, chairman of the Rules Committee and leader of the Southern Democratic forces, offered an amendment that would ban discrimination by reason of gender as well as race. "This bill is so imperfect," said he, "what harm will this little amendment...
Since Scranton is prominently mentioned as a possible G.O.P. presidential nominee, his speech set off speculation about how it might affect his national chances. The likely answer: no harm done, and perhaps some good. Big Labor, after all, sends few delegates to Republican conventions. As for his political position in his own state-well, he won election in 1962 by nearly 500,000 votes without the help of organized labor's leaders...
...dust bowl; most of the new croplands last year failed even to return their seed grain. His hasty campaign to plow under fallow grasslands has impaired huge areas of once-fertile soil since 1958. Khrushchev's evangelical efforts in 1961 to promote mass sowing of corn did more harm than good, as he himself admitted at the meeting...
Weaver and his companion, Edward Hollender of Baltimore, were accused of threatening to harm a Negro woman's six-year-old child if she continued to work in a Canton store which was the object of a SNCC-organized boyott. The incident allegedly took place Feb. 4, and the pair were arrested...
...failed to fasten the safety belt of a nine-year-old girl; she became hysterically frightened and displayed severe emotional symptoms. Explicitly overruling its earlier approach to "mere fright," the New York Court of Appeals in 1961 upheld an award for damages although the girl had suffered no physical harm whatever...