Word: harming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week to White House Fellows, the President lauded their generation for its "questioning, critical spirit, skeptical of promises and rather impatient with results." He reminded them that they enjoyed "enormous freedom-freedom of inquiry, freedom of expression-yes, freedom of dissent." And that freedom, he said, "can never harm us if we remember that it is a two-way street...
...Nasserite Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) is training an army of more than 5,000 men in nearby Yemen to take over when the British leave. Even as the British started evacuating the first of their 8,000 dependents last week, Arab extremists were threatening harm to their women and children. Those threats so far were just that, but elsewhere a total of 20 Arabs was killed during the week, seven of them children whose school bus blew up when it rolled over an anti-tank mine planted in the road. Several British soldiers were among...
Sitting in the sunlight, says Dr. Wilson, is good only for plants. "If you don't have chlorophyll in your veins and arteries, direct sunlight can do you nothing but harm.† Human beings would be healthy if they lived inside a building or cave all the time and never went out in the sun." They would also, of course, be pallid, and in today's civilization a pasty hue is no sign of beauty. Aware of that, Dr. Wilson suggests use of an "instant tan" product. For those who insist on the sun, he advises the most...
...barracks comes a group of prisoners from Auschwitz. Among them is an ancient Pole bearing perhaps the most unusual luggage ever brought into the camp-a cardboard suitcase containing a three-year-old boy, orphaned and alone save for his gaunt guardian who has so far kept him from harm. When the Pole is transferred to another compound, the Kapos (trusties) and other prisoners combine forces to hide the child and save him from the packs of Nazi wolves who run the camp. But it is not long before the commandant hears of the "Jew brat" and determines to find...
...tree, but you shall bury him the same day." In other words, even criminals were to be spared the possibility of mutilation by wild animals after their execution. Orthodox extremists interpret that injunction as meaning that any human must be given prompt burial before his body can come to harm, except when an autopsy can help save the life of a person in the immediate area...