Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authority on Kikuyu manners and morals and official interpreter at the trial of Mau Mau Chieftain Jomo Kenyatta, Gray Leakey had been accepted into the Kikuyu tribe as a "blood brother" and spoke the native language as readily as he did English. Refusing to believe that Mau Mau would harm either himself or his family, he never carried a gun as he made the rounds of his lonely farm 100 miles north of Nairobi...
...minor-league monopoly, Caribbean baseball was too good to last. Major leaguers looked enviously toward the south. And major-league managers quickly recognized that the off-season workouts would do their players no harm. For the last seven years Caribbean Confederation teams have been allowed to recruit big-league players. To give the bushers a break, each big-league club is permitted to send only three players who have been on the roster more than 45 days...
...Carnegie Institution and wartime chief of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. "I feel," said Bush, "that the way in which our security system is working at the present time is driving a wedge between the military and the scientific people of the country, and is doing great harm . . . The whole air of suspicion is just not such as to produce . . . the kind of ... collaboration between the mili tary men and the scientific community that we very much need...
This may be true. Yet it remains significant that a 20th century historian, viewing the Age of Faith, ultimately sees in it mainly "intolerance." Reading this verdict-delivered in history's bloodiest century, in which tolerance of evil has done at least as much harm as intolerance of good-the reader is bound to wonder just who is being self-righteous...
...suggest that the Cambridge and University police forces confine their all-out campaigns to the pursuit and capture of the Cambridge locals who have undoubtedly been doing more harm that student parking violators. Lawrence M. Abrahams