Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down the field with their feet, displays all alone quite as much if not more courage than the line which holds four successive downs on the one-yard line and then takes time out to pull itself together. Rugby has no substitutions, and if a player is so badly hurt that he cannot continue the play his team goes on without him. Rugby is a game-American football is by now a mechanized system...
...Gandhi has almost entirely abandoned his popular anti-British civil disobedience campaign for his unpopular campaign to break the caste system and liberate Hindu Untouchables. Driving into Buxar last week, St. Gandhi's automobile was waylaid by an angry, hooting crowd which smashed windshield, windows and hood, hurt everyone in the car but St. Gandhi. Deeply depressed, the Mahatma planned a three-week fast as penance. It was the first recorded attack on India's slipping idol...
...insidious propaganda." Surely Mr. Wilson saw these obvious facts as early as 1914. But Mr. Stoddard gets more practical, he says "that we should export arms only f.o.b., so that ships flying our flag would not be involved." Similarly Americans should only sail in American boats, lest they get hurt; otherwise it's their own fault, and the government should forget them. Such naivete is dangerous. When an American or British ship was torpedoed in 1915, and its cargo lest, it meant another order for the Yankees, c.o.d., or f.o.b. It was just tough luck on the crew...
...bullpen and played the bulls naked, using their shirts as matadors' capes. Banderillero Calderon took Belmonte under his wing, taught him everything he knew, made him walk every day to strengthen his feeble legs, carrying an iron rod. From the very beginning of his career Belmonte was frequently hurt: his bad legs made it impossible for him to run fast; he always let the bull pass him too close for comfort, sometimes too close lor safety. He served a rough apprenticeship in the ring, fighting wherever and for whatever he could. With his first profits he rescued his family...
Harry Parker plucked the sleeve of a Negro on the outskirts of the crowd. "You is caused enough trouble. Why don't you leave befo' somebody gits hurt...