Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chiang Kai-shek clique by peaceful means and with the use of armed force, and that is within its exclusive competence and nobody else's." In fact, Zorin harped so much on Peking's "right" to wage a shooting war that he plainly did his argument more harm than good, and some listeners began to wonder if Russia were really eager to have Red China seated. At any rate, Zorin's intemperate approach made the U.S.'s reply all the more convincing...
...child is sitting down or lying down, or is upside down or under the bed covers while he is doing this reading. I am not advocating that he read in the dark-it is obviously more comfortable and perhaps easier to read in adequate light-but it does no harm to the eyes to read in the dark. I would much prefer that your child read upside down in the dark than not read...
...movies at one o'clock on Saturday and come out at six, having sat in the front row the whole time, that's fine. He may have a splitting headache and be sick from a lot of popcorn, but he has caused no harm to his eyes. He has benefited from using them. Eyes, like fingers, hands, arms, feet, legs, brains and lungs are to be used, and lack of use may do much greater harm than use. People who tell me they are 'saving' their eyes by not using them are doing their eyes...
Although gym instructors did not mind the numbers of students in such skill sports as sailing and dancing, the harm the team sports and the over-all picture was found undesirable. Mrs. Parker has said that she strongly favors a plan somewhat more flexible than that used in previous years. Physical education would again be required for freshman, she said, but intermurals and club activities could count toward fulfillment of thed requirement...
There is no such thing as a beneficial virus, though some do no harm. Whenever a virus has a detectable effect, it is bad. All healthy tulips are solid-colored. The tulip-streak (or "breaking") virus creates variegated color patterns of great beauty in the eye of the human beholder (and of great cash value to Dutch growers). But, says Stanley, "if you have the tulip-streak virus and you happen to be a tulip, you're sick.'' This lack of evident purpose in viruses leaves teleological philosophers at a loss. Yet viruses must have influenced evolution...