Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lydella does no harm to crops and attacks no insect except the corn borer. The females tenderly place their infant maggots at the entrances of the corn borers' tunnels. Then the maggots, guided by the peculiar genius of their kind, crawl into the tunnels, find the borers and destroy them by devouring their innards...
...Sciences heard last week about a drug that may have more effect on mankind than insulin or penicillin. The announcement dealt with work done by Dr. Eli D. Goldsmith, chairman of the academy's biology section, on a chemical that stops pregnancy in mice without doing any apparent harm to the animals. Given to the mice in their diets after they have become pregnant, it causes the fetus to be "resorbed" without any apparent harmful effect...
...They have brought upon us the hatred and threats and curses of the enemies of freedom-and may bring upon us even worse troubles. Nevertheless, if this nation is justified by history, it is these things that will justify it, and not the negative virtue of meaning no harm...
Eisenhower objected to the Pleven Plan on two counts. 80,000 men were hardly sufficient to bring the European army up to a fighting potential equal to Russia's forces, and language difficulties would harm efficiency of command. He advocated, instead, 12 full divisions (about 20,000 men each), an integrated German command, and an effective tactical air force...
...cigar, he drove through roars of "Good Old Winnie," halting at street corners to scribble autographs, pat children's heads and deride the Socialists' "ill-natured criticism of the Americans." He tells the voters: "We make no promises of easier conditions in the immediate future. Too much harm has been done." His biggest appeal: he reminds Britons of national greatness. Workers, cheering a Churchill appearance while still resolved to vote Labor, often explain: "Winnie's above politics...