Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bapa v. Bunya. There are other superstitions, including the suea yant, a red jacket enscribed with Cambodian letters , Which is guaranteed to protect the wearer "against all harm so long as he has faith in the magic jacket. Seven lucky possessors of these jackets in one of Bangkok's northern suburbs recently took advantage of their invulnerability to terrorize the neighborhood. A fortnight ago, some 50 of their fed-up neighbors took axes and dropped in on the seven to test their magic garments. Before the cops arrived three of the seven were dead. But a brisk demand...
...pioneer suffragette, daughter of Bloomer Girl Lucy Stone and Abolitionist Henry B. Blackwell; in Cambridge, Mass. Spinster Blackwell once remarked, after women had been voting for 25 years: "Women's suffrage hasn't done all the good we intended it should [but] neither has it done the harm its opponents predicted...
...over-solicitous of Radcliffe. Besides being uncomplimentary to the Radcliffe girl, it fails to consider for whom it is making its rules. Since the motive in making rules for Harvard organizations is supposed to be the well-being of these groups, the Council should ask whether the girls will harm the groups they join (perish the thought), not the groups they leave. The Radcliffe Dean's Office and Council are quite capable of legislating about the latter...
...derided these who fear that without the sedition law, Communists, who form to percent of this country's population, will be able to harm the rest of the people. "If we no longer want to be the land of the free," he said, "at least let us be the home of the brave...
...Senators rank high in character and vision, that few of the present Senators are as bad as some specimens of recent history-the Bilbos, Huey Longs, "Pappy" O'Daniels and "Cotton Ed" Smiths. Some are merely time servers and seat warmers who are as incapable of harm as of greatness. There are others whose antics are sometimes cheap and whose motivations are sometimes sordid. But their faults in one area of lawmaking or politicking are offset by their usefulness in others. After allowances are made for such human frailty, these eight would turn up on most lists...