Word: hurt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once did in the 12th grade) we'd get a favorite little plan of ours off our chest. Statesmen and diplomats and "the folks who are in the know" would have to put on boxing gloves and fight it out in the front line. If they got a bit hurt --well, that's really the most important part of our plan. Only the men over 45 (and the women who admitted it) and our special regiment made up of "trash" would be allowed anywhere near the battlefield. The rest of the army, which would be mostly college boys, could just...
...Manchukuo, Abyssinia, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia. While some M.P.s, many of them Tories, were known to feel that peace was worth almost any price, the House of Commons generally thought that the Lloyd George speech was at best untimely for Britain and were fearful that the reaction abroad would hurt. When hot-headed M.P.s came near to suggesting that peace talk at such a time was the next thing to treason, the white-haired veteran protested bitterly that he was the "last man to propose a surrender." Only Mr. Lloyd George knew precisely why he made such a speech at such...
...last hours of the siege, Warsaw's hungry defenders were tempted by huge German posters in Polish reading, POLES! COME TO US. WE WILL NOT HURT YOU. WE WILL GIVE YOU BREAD! Polish officers who finally came out with a flag of truce were received by German General Johannes Blaskowitz in his railway staff car in a scene reminiscent of the signing of World War I's armistice in the car of Generalissimo Ferdinand Foch. General Rommel, commanding the defense of Warsaw, had instructed his emissaries to ask only a brief truce for the evacuation of civilians...
...upper deck structure, and extend the periscope a little. It's an aircraft carrier. I see two airplanes. I see destroyers. I know it will be a tough task. But hurt the enemy whenever...
...retailers about the same) with big manufacturers standing out by voting 100% "yes." They also believe that unionism has hurt (48.4%) the U. S. more than it has helped (31.8%), that if the unions were to merge into one big powerful union business would be better off (42.9%), worse off (38.5%). Greatest faults of unions at present: unreliable, racketeering, unreasonable leadership. Greatest virtues: raised wages, maintained a living wage, improved working conditions...