Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear. Brazil, Aranha explained, wants neither loans nor investments from abroad. Said he: "We have depended too much on outside aid. That's why we have not made more progress. We must learn to stand on our own feet." Foreign private capital, he said, has done Brazil more harm than good, and if foreign companies do not like the new taxes he plans to impose, "they can leave; it makes no difference." Americans, said Aranha, "are our best friends, but we have always made our poorest business deals with our best friends...
...Allied occupation of West Germany is tied directly to final ratification of the EDC. Adenauer's policy has been to avoid demands or outbursts which would harm EDC's chances in the French Assembly. But opposition Socialists and many of Adenauer's own colleagues are now urging him to press for German sovereignty without getting involved in the European Army. "If something does not begin developing after the French presidential elections in mid-December," said one German last week, "we'll begin to shout out loud what we have been thinking all along...
...right. Soon the cabin was filled with kinsmen, neighbors, children and newsmen. Then Jim Dickenson, another son of Dave Dickenson's first marriage, burst upon the scene, glared at reporters and photographers and demanded: "When are you going to Hollywood, Pop? . . . You'll bring Ed nothing but harm by talking to all these folks and having your picture took." Bessie protested: "Don't listen to him, Dave." But Dave Dickenson was old and tired. "Bessie." he said, "the whole thing's got me tore up. I'm easy wrecked, and I can't stand...
What was going on would do La Rosa no harm in his new solo career. His talent agency contract guarantees him at least $100,000 during the next year (with Godfrey last year, he made an estimated $35,000). Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town television show snapped him up at $3,000 a guest performance. Mamie Eisenhower watched him rehearse for a role in Washington's Navy Relief Ball, afterward shook his hand, repeating again and again, "Isn't he cute? Isn't he cute...
...belief is safe enough. Hiss, undetected, would probably have done no harm whatever to this nation's prestige abroad. That was not the harm he was convicted of doing...