Word: harming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unfortunately, Massachusetts laws may force us not to employ people whom we want to employ," he continued. "If this tendency is not reversed, much harm may result to prospective employees who have disorders which are not disabling but may become so in the future...
...Geneva Conference, said Dean Acheson, "was not merely a failure; it was a fraud and positive harm . . . Unless the situation is ripe for settlement, then, no matter how eminent the participants, how perceptive their insight, how bold and imaginative their conceptions, their efforts will fail. In the last twelve years the international conference has ceased to be an instrument for ending conflict and has become one for continuing it. For high international negotiations it is not necessary that chiefs of state or heads of government be involved...
Disarmament unquestionably has moral overtones, and public debate on that count can do little harm. But the central issue is its strategic value for the security of the U.S.; the ethical question must remain secondary, since self-preservation must be the nation's cardinal objective. In the '30's public over-optimism and moralizing on the issue of neutrality led the Government to tie its hands militarily, leaving the country unprepared for World War II. Public disregard of the strategic importance of preparedness distracted official attention from the realities and necessities of the world situation...
...designed to be damaged electrically by meteorites at least 10 microns (1/2500 in.) in diameter, showed no more than one hit (possibly none) in 32 days. The satellite was not damaged, and Manring and Dubin conclude that only long exposure to this concentration of micrometeorites would do it any harm...
...poured some vodka into the goldfish bowl this afternoon--doesn't seem to be doing them any harm...