Word: hurt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only trying to strike, and last week its effort petered out. Congress, embattled on greater issues, gave no sign of revising the 130-hour-per-month requirement of the new Relief Act, which so affronted aristocratic A. F. of L.; nor of rescinding the 18-months-&-off rule which hurt lowly Workers Alliance. Both organizations fumed and demonstrated sporadically last week, but WPA moved on oblivious. Grimly, Administrator "Pink" Harrington proceeded with his duty, imposed by the taxpayers' Congress, to cut 650,000 workers off the rolls by August...
Chang's tigers never hurt anyone, but last year the enemies of Chang's people, the Japanese, flew their planes over...
...event of European war the effect of a mandatory embargo is not difficult to predict. It would improve Hitler's chances for victory in a Blitzkrieg, or lightning war. It might not appreciably hurt the long-term chances of England and France, both of which have rich empires of their...
Meanwhile, under the pressure of the New Deal and public opinion, the entire Colorado coal field had been unionized. Paradoxically, it hurt Rocky Mountain Fuel. Union men who once had demanded R. M. F. coal, were now willing to buy from any union mine. R. M. F. sales leveled off, ran a deficit year after year...
...Chicago, Rudolph Spielvogel, whose wife, Erika, wanted a divorce, told the court: "When my wife would provoke me, I would hit and kick myself. Then I would know how much it would have hurt her. . . ." Countered Wife Erika, his aim was sometimes poor: "He swung a pot of hot coffee and struck me with it." She got the divorce...