Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plainly betting that a really free, united Germany would voluntarily cast its lot with the democracies. It was a risk that in the long run had to be taken. Having abandoned its quavering fear at the very thought of a united Germany-a posture that was doing real harm in West Germany-the West returned to its more immediate task, giving West Germany its peace (see below...
Turrentine set up some safeguards before applying the idea more widely. He never suggests emasculation to a defendant: the suggestion must be made in a voluntary petition. A physical and psychiatric examination must convince the judge that the operation is likely to do more good than harm. If the man is married, his wife must join in the petition...
...Pope is infallible only in questions of faith or morals. Here is one of the great paradoxes of the book. O'Neill infers continually that Blanshard is in favor of an omnipotent, freedom-smothering state, although Blanshard's position is quite the contrary. Yet O'Neill evidently sees no harm in having one man pronounce, without contention, on all questions of morality...
...There is no harm in this initial stage," Fleming said. "But in some cases, it is only a way station. Plainly and simply, the main cause of an alcohol addiction is alcohol. The more one drinks, the more necessary it becomes...
...interesting exception to this rule was revealed in recent case studies, which showed a surprising percentage of ex-athletes among the patients at alcoholic clinics. These men, because of their exceptional physical condition during their college years, were at first able to take large quantities of alcohol without apparent harm. But their systems were affected by this overdosage, and when their condition weakened, their progress to chronic addiction was hastened...