Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been extending to our national life the old principle of the local community, the principle that no individual man, woman or child has a right to do things that hurt their neighbors. . . . In the old days it was unfair to our neighbors to allow our cattle to roam on their land. When we got into great cities it became unfair to maintain a pigsty on Main Street. It became unfair to our neighbors if we sought to make unfair profits from monopolies in things that everybody had to use. . . . It was not fair to our neighbors to let anybody...
When these words of Dr. Piperno's come to his ears- "Questo si fara soffrire un poco" (This is going to hurt a little)- Il Duce does not groan and stiffen his limbs. Instead he merely growls, "Non temo il dolore" (I do not fear pain...
Going further, Dr. von Schinckel hurled a thinly veiled reproof at Nazi policies. "Dissatisfaction in the outside world toward Germany and the boycott movement are making themselves strongly felt." said he. "This has severely hurt the Hamburg-American Line's business and is continuing to hurt it and German shipping generally. . ". . My colleagues and I are resigning with regret. It is not our way to be leaving the company when things are going badly but developments have left us no choice...
...first set 6-1, netted most of his shots as he lost the second without taking a game, outplayed Perry in the third, 6-4. and was ahead at 3-2 in the fourth when he fell, trying to recover one of Perry's cross-court drives. Obviously hurt, he managed to finish the set, which Perry won 7-5. Vines's service and the pace he gave his drives kept the next set close until the score was 7-6 and 40-15 in Perry's favor. Vines walked back to serve once more...
...inadequate. Most experts suggested that Vines and Allison were "over-tennised." John Tunis who goes abroad every summer to cover tournaments for the New York Evening Post said before the matches started that playing in Australia last winter had been bad for Vines, without explaining why it had not hurt Australia's Jack Crawford who beat Vines in the Wimbledon final. Said shrewd René Lacoste: "Certainly Vines could have been better but account must be taken of the way Austin maneuvered him around the court...