Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mission in Venezuela for the last two years. Leaving his home one morning, he was greeted by four armed hoodlums, ordered into a white 1962 Chevrolet and whisked away. Soon after, a woman called the U.S. embassy to announce: "We just want him for propaganda purposes. We will not harm him." But then, as Venezuelan police hauled in more leftists, the phone calls turned nasty. The F.A.L.N. offered Chenault as a hostage: the colonel in exchange for 70-odd leftists recently jailed by the government. "Unless our comrades are turned loose," said the voice on the telephone, "we will...
...Sarnoff of the National Institutes of Health supplied a paradoxical definition: "Stress is the process of living. The process of living is the process of reacting to stress." Key points by other speakers in sup port of this view: ∙ PHYSICAL STRESS, no matter how se vere, cannot harm the heart unless it is already seriously diseased or has an in adequate blood supply, said Cardiologist Paul Dudley White. The same goes for arteries, veins and capillaries. Further more, the heart and blood vessels do not merely tolerate an abundance of regular physical exercise; they thrive on it. Many cardiologists...
...private holdings in ranching and broadcasting, that he is on friendly terms with Texas oilmen and other big businessmen, and that he has boosted Texas by using his influence to seek business and to stave off attacks on the 27½% oil-depletion allowance. And it does him no harm in businessmen's eyes that as a U.S. Senator he voted "right" on labor issues less than half of the time by the estimate of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. "I expect," said Socony Mobil Oil Chairman Albert Nickerson, "that he will follow a middle-of-the-road course...
...that it has substituted strength for weakness all over the globe, encouraging nations struggling to be free to stand on their own two feet. To weaken and water down the pending program, to confuse and confine its flexibility with rigid restrictions and rejections, will not only harm our economy; it will hamper our security. It will waste our present investment...
...difficult to call Mrs. Hicks' victory an unqualified mandate for bigotry. Mrs. Hicks seems to want less to harm Negroes than to ignore them-in a way which will give her' maximum publicity. Her reply to the NAACP was not a refusal to take action (in fact, the School Committee made a few minor concessions), but a denial that any problem exists at all. Perhaps many white voters supported her so that they could continue to ignore the problem, or simply because of the familiarity of her name...