Word: harmfulness
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...South African Consul General. I expressed my concern that the student movement in which he takes part is turning from non-violence and mature politics to violence. He assured me that no one tried to interfere with the Consul General's activities or attempted to do him any harm. Not knowing the details of the case, I was effectively silenced Today I read that students rushed him and tried to hold him, that they prevented his departure by lying down in front and in back of his car, and that some students wanted to detain him until midnight. My dinner...
...Gloria finds herself staring hard at visitors, "because if I didn't keep my eyes on them they might all disappear in a puff of the . . . cigarette." She imagines a sofa as "a nest on the topmost branch of a tree where I'm safe and nothing can harm...
...Because they work from countries where they have committed no crimes, terrorists are often impossible to stop legally. Even more important, they are fanatics who do not care if they kill innocent people. The only way to take on fanatics is to get them before they can do any harm. He believes the laws are not written to allow police to take preemptive action...
...free love" was promoted with the argument "Whom does it hurt? It's fun, it's loving, and it doesn't harm anyone." Now in the '80's, we hear: "I must have my sexual freedom (read: irresponsibility) and my career, and I will kill...
ROYAL SECRETS TAKES US step-by-step through the "downstairs" of Buckingham Palace, Sandringham, and the other Royal residences, dropping harmless chit-chat at every turn. Prince Philip, we harm, visits the kitchen regularly to berate the cooks. Prince Charles hung out there as a child, but by the time he reached 30 he had forgotten the way. Lady Diana, captive in the palace before her wedding, spent so much time in the pantry that The Yeoman of the Glass and China finally threw her out. "Through there is your side of the house. Your Royal Highness," he said, pointing...