Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entrusted.The structure of our government is ample proof of the very real concern our Founding Fathers had over the possibility of a tyranny by the majority. 'The greatest good for the greatest number' is ethically sound only insofar as it is consonant with 'The least harm to the least number...
...meeting sponsored by the Kent (Conn.) League of Women Voters last week, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said: "I believe that Alger Hiss, had he remained as head of the Carnegie Foundation without detection of his alleged treasonable act, would have done less harm to the cause of this nation's prestige abroad than [McCarthy Subcommittee Investigators] Schine and Cohn did in their junket through Europe...
...more give up his project than he would part with the Empire. "I asked for very little," he told the Tories. "I held out no exciting hopes about Russia. I thought that friendly, informal, personal talks between the leading figures . . . might do good and could not easily do much harm, and that one good thing might lead to another...
Churchill called his proposal "a humble, modest plan." He is sticking to it even though his own Foreign Office thinks it likely to do more harm than good. To the cheering galleries, he said: "I still think that the leading men of the various nations ought to . . . meet together without trying to cut attitudes before excitable publics, or using regiments of experts to marshal all the difficulties and objections. Let us try to see whether there is not something better for us all than tearing and blasting each other to pieces, which we can certainly...
...Dwyer ten long months to get around to giving Bill Jansen his blessing to run the schools back in 1947 - ten months in which the Board of Education scoured the whole country to find a superintendent from another city. This executive reluctance-something which has done the superintendent no harm at all in the years since O'Dwyer tumbled from public esteem-was understandable enough. So was O'Dwyer's final decision. Jansen has all the basic virtues. He is a strong, calm, kindly man, able to soak up work like a sponge, make endless speeches...