Word: harms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inducements to get to work on land-reform programs. Other stops: Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. McGovern. traveling with Brain-Truster Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (along as Kennedy's personal representative), visited food-exporting Argentina to reassure it that the giveaway program is not intended to harm normal markets. "A man who's starving and not in a position to buy food isn't considered a commercial customer," said McGovern...
Like the perpetrators of the Revised Standard Version of the King James Bible, this new group of Biblical scholars is doing irreparable harm to both religion and literature. The substitution of "that you and we together may share in a common life" for "that ye also may have fellowship with us" is obviously a plug for togetherness. Did the child ever breathe who would not have preferred Joseph's "coat of many colors," as in the King James Version, to the "long robe," which presumably flapped about his ankles, in the Revised Standard? If the purpose of the revisionists...
...spread his charges far and wide. "There," roared the boss, "sits [Nikifor] Kalchenko, member of the Central Committee, member of the Supreme Soviet, chairman of the council of ministers of the great Ukrainian republic, and sheds water like a duck as if nothing has happened. He has caused great harm to the economy of the great republic." The Central Committee agreed that it was everybody's fault but Nikita's, and sternly resolved to expel from the party all those who dreamed up fake figures to conceal the shortfall...
...Cuba, the Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier found Kennedy's silence "cause for apprehension," the Christian Science Monitor's William Stringer found it "traditional behavior," and the Boston Herald found it reprehensible: "An endorsement by him of the President's Cuban stand would have done him no harm and would have greatly strengthened the country's position...
...Good a Cure? Some Canadians wonder whether the cure might not be worse than the disease. Alberta Premier Ernest Manning charges the federal government with "catering to a small element of bigoted nationalists" in a way that could only bring harm to the Canadian economy. Many businessmen, particularly oilmen, who need big chunks of investment capital, argue that Canadians do not have the funds to finance major projects themselves. Calgary's Oilweek trade bible cited as a typical case a nearly completed, $90 million financing by Canadian-owned Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co. Ltd. for a pipeline-gathering system...