Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Experience. In Toledo, Mailman Lawrence J. Fanelly gave up "his job because his feet hurt, promptly set to work on a course in chiropody...
Hollingsworth drow hisses from the crowd by stating plainly that "Knowing the right people doesn't hurt any either...
Like almost all modern artists, Georges Braque was caught in the propeller of his fast-flying onetime friend Pablo Picasso. But in Braque's case it didn't hurt a bit. Last week the Cleveland Museum of Art was staging the biggest Braque show ever seen in the U.S.-114 pieces covering every phase of his career. Braque may not be the alltime great painter he is considered in Paris, but the Cleveland show gave ample evidence that he ranks with the finest alive...
...baseball had more to worry about last week than who would play second base. Three black-robed U.S. Court of Appeals judges, sitting in as umpires on a $300,000 damage suit, prepared to call a play that could really hurt. In effect, baseball was told that its player contracts might be violating the U.S. antitrust laws and making "peons" out of professional ballplayers at the same time. Since baseball had been writing the same kind of contract for two generations, it was a little like being told, after years of married life, that the wedding wasn't legal...
...learned the go-getter gospel by heart, fervently played the goodfellow game, planted his sons along the broad winning highway, locked himself-and then lost himself-inside the American dream. Whenever the truth has not been fancy enough, he has lied to other people; whenever it has hurt, he has lied to himself. Nor have his sons fared better-neither the boy who loved his father till he found him with a woman, nor the one who has never loved anything but a good time. His nerve going, his job gone, his boys slashing their way out of his dream...