Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passed civil rights bill, Southern Senators decided that a filibuster would be both futile and dangerous: it might result in a harsher bill, it might bring about a change in the Senate's cloture rule, and it would certainly build up ill will that could only harm the Southern cause in future years. Among the first to agree with the no-filibuster decision was South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, the 1948 Dixiecrat candidate for President...
...Columbia), but Sal Mineo's lustrous brown eyes get mighty moist in this movie while he fends off all manner of ruffians, twerps and smart alecks. As a 17-year-old paragon of adolescence in a Georgia orphanage, "Big Fella" Mineo stoutly defends the "little fellas" from harm, sturdily resists the temptations and blandishments of a bevy of Bad Examples. In hammering out his selfless philosophy of life, Sal learns through bitter experience to reject the cynical green applesauce of an opportunistic main-chancer (Thomas Carlin), and to sneer at the diesel-crass plutocracy of a trucking tycoon (Gene...
...London's St. James Ladies' Swimming Club, Proud Papa Fred Francis gave her a pound note ($2.80). Promptly, Club Secretary Florence Fuller ruled the gift made Carol a pro, last week barred her from the pool, primly wrote home that gifts of clothes and candy might further harm Carol's standing. Cried the father: "It's farcical-I've been giving Carol food and clothes for twelve years!" But after a chat with Regional Swimming Official Harry Gibbons, Rigid-Ruler Florence relented, ruled that Carol was still an amateur after...
...Russian literature); Detroit Free Press (which at the end of the period said it was "proud of its long record of unbiased coverage of the news"); Indianapolis Star; Los Angeles Times; New York Daily Mirror; New York Daily News (whose president said a survey of bias would "do more harm than good"); San Francisco Chronicle (which claimed no bias in campaign coverage...
...Agriculture Department asked Congress to eliminate the escalator clause in the support law before serious harm is done to the "longrun interests of our farm people." But last week influential farm-bloc Congressmen passed the word that there will be "no action this year." On commodity markets, cotton futures jumped $1 to $3.65 a bale in a single clay as cottonmen got set for higher prices and higher supports...