Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist proposals for settling East-West tensions, few have been more often repeated than this. Yet last week it was no Communist who said it, but a true-blue Tory-Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Said Macmillan in a broadcast to the nation: "It would do no harm. It might do good...
...staff system could and should come only after the fullest possible debate-and that debate is just now starting in earnest. To be carefully weighed is the possibility that the conversion, in Sputnik's day, would be too strong a dose of medicine, might do the patient more harm than good. Yet the proponents of the general staff system argue that the U.S. can afford no less at a time when the technology of war and weapons has so plainly outraced the military organization that supports...
...already available for high-speed painless drilling, were demonstrated to Greater New York dentists as a means of cleaning the teeth. At 26,000 vibrations per second, a blunt, smooth tip on the instrument dislodges accumulations of calculus (tartar), including those below the gumline, where they do the most harm, while a continuous fine jet of lukewarm water washes the debris away. Advantages: to the dentist, speed; to the patient, gentleness, as compared with sharp scrapers, and reduced danger of injury to the teeth...
...says a member of Colorado's State Commission on Alcoholism, "many industries still are either unaware of alcoholism in their own plants or unwilling to acknowledge the problem." But, as many companies are beginning to realize, such attitudes not only encourage the problem drinker in his course but harm the company itself. The best way to eliminate the cost and waste of problem drinking in industry is to face up to the problem. Says Mrs. Elizabeth D. Whitney, executive director of Boston's Committee on Alcoholism: "We're encouraged by the gradual awakening that has occurred...
Turkey had proved impressive. It had clearly shown that it meant business, but no harm...