Word: harming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insist on some sort of demonstration. Nevertheless, he simultaneously pledged to do everything he could to avoid a disruption of the Secretary's private sessions with students. He was not enthralled by the meetings, but neither was he convinced that they were entirely useless. Certainly, they could do no harm and would not spoil SDS's plans...
...semiskilled factory hand and an over-skilled sex deviate. In 1961, he confessed that he was the "Measuring Man," who for more than a year had talked his way into the apartments of gullible women by claiming to be a representative of a model agency. He did not harm any of the women, but got his kicks from touching them while he took their measurements on the pretext that he was recruiting talent. He served eleven months-for attempted breaking and entering and assault and battery-before he was paroled...
Some critics have complained that the camera has crippled this ballet with its frequent close-ups. For years, however, the best-equipped balletomanes have been training their opera-glasses on ballet stars to gain precisely the close-up effect. So what harm to let the camera lens do the work of opera glasses...
...bill, backed by the Administration, would prohibit discrimination in the selection of federal and state juries, enable the Attorney General to initiate school-desegregation suits, and forbid intimidation or physical harm of civil rights workers or of voters. It would also forbid discrimination in the sale or rental of housing by anyone selling or leasing more than three units (other than their own house) in any one year. It is this provision that prompted Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen to oppose the law as "unconstitutional" and refuse to put his enormous prestige behind the measure. When the Democratic leadership tried...
Then he took the stand in his own defense, and suddenly the case against him began to look remarkably flimsy. Guided by Georgiadis, Kinsey explained that he had loved his wife, had never suspected or accused her of infidelity, nor had he ever wanted to harm or hit her. He testified that since they were both teachers, they had spent most of the day of her death at home grading papers, then they had left to cycle to Impala hill. Kinsey had intended to take his camera equipment along to photograph birds and wild life...