Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explained in order to separate the sheep from the goats. The question is not whether people's feelings here and there may be hurt, or names 'dragged through the mud,' as it is called. The real issue is whether the danger of abuses and the actual harm done are so clear and substantial that the grave risks of fettering free congressional inquiry are to be incurred by artificial and technical limitations...
...British scientists have joined the widespread popular clamor against the tests. Viscount Cherwell, Churchill's wartime scientific adviser, is vehement against "hysterical people" who would sacrifice "a deterrent which would probably save us from a war costing millions of lives" on the ground "that our tests might harm the health of a completely negligible part of the human race." British medical authorities are not so sure. The authoritative medical journal Lancet urges "immediate abandonment of all further nuclear explosions...
...example of how the new system might work: a white man threatens to harm a Negro if the Negro votes. The Negro complains to the Justice Department but is himself afraid-or too poor-to file suit. The Attorney General, under the new law, would bring suit in the name...
...unless the balance of $29,228,000 is restored, Dulles told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, "there would be harm to the nation which, in the opinion of the President and myself, would be real and grievous...
...almost superstitious regard to the kilted men who swill their usquebaugh and sweat to master pibrochs (variations on bagpipe tunes). As he warms his "celebrated bottom" before the mess fire (nothing, it should be said to satisfy Sassenach and U.S. curiosity, is worn beneath the kilt), it seems no harm can come...