Word: harming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With this in mind, the professors decided that the money raised would do more good for Fairchild and Schricker than the bad publicity would do harm. And while this action may or may not be wise, it is not something they can retract. The news is out, and all money collected can do now is help to remove McCarthy and Jenner from the Senate. For this reason, those who share the aims of the Civil Liberties Appeal should have no qualms about supporting...
Whistle-stopping at Havre, Mont., the President charged that Ike had been slow to recognize the Soviet threat after World War II. "His advice," said Truman, "carried great weight and it therefore did a great deal of harm." (New York's Governor Tom Dewey countered this charge in a television show-see below...
Murray had evidently neglected to read the fine lines in the NCAA TV contract. The NCAA specifically stated that where there was a sell-out and no appreciable harm would come to other schools in the vicinity, a contest could be televised locally. Hence, the NCAA and Hall, despite personal feelings, didn't hesitate to grant Murray permission...
...Fossil. Few of his contemporaries won his affection, fewer still his awe. President Buchanan he labeled "Old Pennsylvania Fossil." Andrew Jackson, he noted, had done the U.S. "more harm than any man who ever lived in it. unless it may have been Tom Jefferson." Boss Tweed he crowned "His Scoundrelism...
...brigadier, took charge of a machine-gun and infantry regiment in the Sinai desert. He was the only senior officer his troops had ever known who literally led his men. When an enemy fusillade struck down most of his company, including a captain standing at his shoulder, the only harm that came to Naguib was a bullet that smashed his pipe. "Why do you risk your life in this needless way?" asked his commanding officer. "It's not needless," replied Naguib. "It makes my men fight better...