Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lash out at Dwight D. Eisenhower and hole up for consultations with Old Crony Harry Vaughan, Truman got to talking about his place in the Democratic campaign. "I've told 'em not to send me any place where I could do them any harm," he said. New Jersey's Democratic U.S. Representative T. James Tumulty thought he knew just the place. "Send him," he telegraphed Adlai Stevenson, "on a slow boat to China...
...interview with the left bank Paris Review, Dorothy ("Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses") Parker, wit, versifier and short-story writer, spoke frankly about many things. Of the '20s: "Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' . . . We all said, 'Whee! We're lost.' " Of her own verse: "I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss [Edna St. Vincent] Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers. My verses are no damn good. Let's face it, honey, my verse is terribly...
...drop the patient below the minimum protein requirement, thus upsetting the bodily nitrogen balance and leading to a variety of deficiency diseases. "Fortunately, few people will adhere to either of these diets for long . . . But there are compulsive dieters, just as there are compulsive drinkers . . . and in these subjects harm can be anticipated that . . . the ingenuity of the research scientists [cannot] correct...
...Panhard first time around the course. A few hours later he was dead of head injuries. As rain slicked the course, at least a dozen cars skidded, collided or overturned. But a phalanx of 1,000 gendarmes surrounded the track, and spectators at least were kept from harm...
...tied up in color TV; telephone companies buried millions of dollars worth of coaxial cable, engineered with TV in view, long before they had network customers. Monsanto tested 15,000 chemical compounds at its Creve Coeur, Mo. laboratories to find a herbicide that would kill weed grasses but not harm corn or soybeans, spent six years and $750,000 on the product, which has yet to be marketed...