Word: harming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, Russia welcomed Cuba's subversive efforts. No longer. Well aware that Castro's guerrilla wars are getting nowhere, that they are doing more harm than good to Communism's image, Moscow is now trying to achieve a foothold in Latin America through diplomacy and trade expansion (TIME, March 31). Such tactics, Castro claims, only help the "oligarchies" that he is trying to overthrow. To make sure that Moscow gets the point, Castro is planning a Latin America-wide meeting in Havana next month to discuss future strategies for his guerrilla wars of liberation...
...Paul-Henri Spaak, who helped draft the treaty, was asked so late that he declined to attend. Instead, the fellow who had all the fun was the one who deserved it least. He was Charles de Gaulle, whose narrow view of Europe has probably done most to harm the Common Market and slow its growth...
...simply listing his thousands of fascinating quotes-ranging from Gangster Al Capone on the American free-enterprise system to one Morris Zelditch on fluoridation-Historian Boller has chosen to weave them into a convincing argument for fair play in the use of quotations. But no matter how much harm may be done by distorting quotes, he demonstrates that the unretouched, straight quote can be most damaging of all. Practically everybody at one time or another has made statements that would better have been left unsaid...
...January issue of the Herald, an editorial appeared quoting an unnamed professor as saying, "I don't care what anyone says about me in this school . . . I have failed a whole class before, and I can still do it. I can harm you, while you can't do me a thing...
...does most harm to light-complexioned persons. This is apparently not related to hair color, as widely thought, but to eye color. Most sun-susceptible colors: light green and light blue...