Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many a thoughtful neurosurgeon, some drastic brain operations now in vogue are "like burning down the house to roast the pig." For two of the operations substitute methods are being suggested in hopes that the same amount of good can be done with less incidental harm...
...Ulcer victims who swill milk and assorted alkalies can do themselves more harm than good; Dr. Edward Kessler of Albany, N.Y. has seen three patients in one year who were petrifying themselves by clogging their kidneys with excess calcium. Other doctors have reported seven deaths. The danger to life increases with the duration and degree of the self-medication, especially with sodium bicarbonate and its proprietary relatives...
...turned free enterprise into a popular rallying cry. "Who are the greatest enemies of private enterprise?" thundered Lord Beaverbrook's powerful Sunday Express. "Not the Socialists. Not the Communists. The deadliest enemies of private enterprise are the foolish men who damage and undermine it from within. The worst harm of all is inflicted by the irresponsible recklessness of price fixers...
Nothing but harm can result from the Senators' present tactics. They should drop their charges and approve Harlan's nomination at once...
...zone. The Reds also imported French Communist Jacques Duclos to warn German audiences against German militarism and to promise, in the name of France, that the Paris accords would never be ratified. But though the Communists talked furiously, it was the massive Socialist campaign that was doing the most harm. In town after town, the SPD was whipping up German youths to riot against rearmament, circulating petitions and questionnaires whose loaded questions (gist: Do you want unity or do you want war?) led Konrad Adenauer to exclaim that these were the same techniques used by the Nazis and Communists...