Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, however, the project carries certain grave dangers. Unleashed alumni who track down only football players could do the College much greater harm than those who overlook the athletes and other schoolboy leaders and hunt solely for scholars. Probably the basic questions to be faced are whether everyone has the same definition of "Balance in the college" and whether everything about Harvard's new program is helping to meet this goal...
...admirers that he stayed away from work for 90 days last year and had to be fined 2.7 piculs (360 lbs.) of cereals for backsliding. Complained the People's Daily: "Some of these heroes become self-centered and self-satisfied, drifting away from the masses and actually causing harm to production . . . [They] go back to their homes and look down on their villages and their local governments, just because they have visited . . . Peking and have shaken hands or dined with Chairman...
Last December and earlier this year, the N.C.A.A. met to discuss the possibility of limiting television broadcasts especially because they harm gate receipts...
...terror in China, with horrible executions and mob butcheries [see Foreign News] and a merciless purge characteristic of Communist tyranny wherever it is applied . . . We ought not, I say, to have any sympathies with Red China, and the more they are expressed and manifested in this House, the more harm is done to our relations with the U.S. After all, the U.S. is doing 19/20ths of the work and suffering losses of 50 and 60 to 1 compared to us." Demanded Churchill with Olympian anger: "[Is it] worthwhile to go on nagging and haggling and higgling with the U.S. over...
...Pretoria, South Africa's Dutch Reformed Church (1,400,000 members) held a synod, solemnly condemned: 1) cremation ("a heathen custom"), 2) commercial radio programs on Sundays, 3) American comics ("doing untold harm"), 4) Freemasonry, 5) the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. The churchmen rejected racial and sex equality ("God spoke to Adam, not to Eve"), as well as freedom of speech and opinion: "Heresy and untruth may not be spoken freely . . . The devilish tendencies in man place very definite limits on these freedoms...