Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demand redress for victims of cruel dictatorship." N.A.A.C.P.'s Washington director, Clarence Mitchell, added: "Tell those Democrats that if they keep a stinking albatross like Senator Eastland around their necks they can kiss our votes goodbye." Some N.A.A.C.P. delegates felt, however, that such talk did the organization more harm than good in the high-tension atmosphere of today...
Bertrand Russell, Britain's most astute rationalist, once wrote an essay called "The Harm that Good Men Do." In this book, that is also the theme of Roman Catholic Convert Greene. He saw the French debacle in Indo-China as correspondent for LIFE and the London Sunday Times. Out of Saigon, he wrote of the doomed Vietnamese, the touchy, defeatist French and their absurd allies like the Caodist "Pope," who had female cardinals and canonized Victor Hugo. Most significantly, he wrote in his diary: "Is there any solution here the West can offer? But the bar tonight was loud...
...Your handling of the agricultural issue is positively unfair ... I hear this farm situation discussed pro and con 20 times a day, and I haven't the answer to our trouble, but I do know that partisan reporting will only harm us. Delve into this deal a little deeper. You'll find Ed Murrow knew what he was talking about...
While proponents of the bill, both Republicans and Democrats, maintain that the national interest demands an increased incentive to foster a continuing search for new gas fields, many Senators fear that a removal of regulation would drastically harm consumers. This increase in rates would only add to the profits of the fewer than 200 large companies that supply most of the natural gas carried in interstate commerce. Primarily involved in oil drilling, they receive bonanza profits from by-products without sizeable expenditures...
...characters whom these actors portray are not exactly the same ones author Nelson Algren first created, since Preminger made a number of major changes when he adapted the novel for the screen. But they are still strikingly believable, and the new ending of their story does not really harm them. The Man with the Golden Arm remains a powerful document of degradation and triumph...