Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Possibly the Reds had actually been intimidated by this U.S. warning. Many parents in the Eastern zone, afraid that their children might come to harm in Berlin, were trying to keep them from taking part in the demonstration. There was no doubt that the Reds could provoke trouble in Berlin if they wanted to-and put the Western Allies in the embarrassing position of having to use force on German civilians, most of them mere kids (see below). Whatever the Russians' intention, on Armed Forces Day last week the U.S. showed that it was ready for trouble...
Neither proposed set of rules--the Dean's nor the joint-committee's--is necessary to ordering and protecting undergraduate activities. Either would positively harm the freedom of undergraduates...
...Cori, a tiny refreshment room, Pretti wiped the dust from the red Coca-Cola disc, stopped to listen to the woes of the proprietress' daughter: her fiancé had been called to arms, and in order to persuade the Blessed Virgin to keep the young man from harm, the girl had-as a special sacrifice-given up her daily quota of a dozen Cokes. "She has become as thin as a nail," wailed her mother, "and I have been afraid she would...
...might fairly be labeled by critics in the future, the golden age of garbage." Anyway, said Pegler, who used to be a good reporter himself, and careful of his facts, "fiction is a cowardly medium. The fictioneer needn't defend his position or accept the responsibility for the harm he does...
...Uncle John himself was just the same, still striding into his doorless office at 7:30 a.m. to get ready for his callers, still plumping loudly for bigger & better Michigan State teams ("I see no harm at all in a big stadium, big field house, and big crowds . . ."), still puttering about his two-acre truck garden when he can find the time. He had some additional building ideas too. With the new dormitory finished, he was pestering the state legislature to get $3,000,000 for a new library...