Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mistress, a solid, grey-haired woman named Mrs. Frank Goldfuss, looked out an upstairs window, saw him, called for her husband. The couple ran downstairs, backed out their car, drove around the block and intercepted the robber. "You hurt our dog," screamed Mrs. Goldfuss. "I'm going to call a cop." Fox yanked out his pistol, aimed it at her, pulled the trigger. It failed to fire. Goldfuss leaped out and jumped...
...should people want to go that fast, or even at a conservative Mach 1.2? When asked this question, air designers look stunned or hurt. They recover quickly and answer with ringing confidence: "People want to go fast...
...from a stop light. He drives like a madman, wears natty bow ties, and loves to talk. At Kiwanis and Rotary luncheons he likes to say: "I don't train the boys, they train themselves." With a great show of modesty he also insists that he "has never hurt a good runner," and even his enemies grant him this...
Griffith was hurt and astonished at the cries. By way of answer, he sank all the money he had in another super. Intolerance. The film ran 20 hours, before cutting, and undertook to prove, in four parallel stories from history, that intolerance and injustice never pay. Intolerance itself was a failure at the box office. Like his later successes (Broken Blossoms, Orphans of the Storm and Way Down East), it perhaps only proved that Griffith would never again match The Birth of a Nation...
Mydans, who claims no crystal ball, was actually in Fukui to dig up material for a forthcoming TIME story on Japanese recovery. He wanted to observe a segment of Japanese life that was not directly under the influence of Tokyo, an area which had been hurt by war but had recovered quickly, in which farming, fishing, and business were all represented, and where the American military government commander knew and liked the people and had won their confidence. "We selected Fukui as a good sampling ground," cabled Mydans, as a postscript to his disaster report, "and had found...