Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early Years. He was brought up in Owosso (pop. 8,000), where he had a perfect attendance record at school, played football and tootled the tuba in the school band. His parents were strict: they once forbade him to use his tricycle for a whole year because he had hurt himself in a fall. In his spare time, he sang in the Episcopal choir, managed a magazine route, worked in his father's print shop. One summer he spent on a nearby farm as a member of the Boys' Working Reserve of World...
Southern politicians were still circling the White House like Sioux menacing a covered wagon. A lot of the hallooing after Harry Truman's scalp came from men who simply enjoyed listening to the echo, but last week the President heard one statement which hurt. Alabama's Senator John J. Sparkman, former Democratic whip of the House, and hitherto an ardent Truman supporter, demanded that the President remove himself as a candidate...
...Costa Rica's ex-President Calderon Guardia. The business: selling Nicaraguan cattle in Costa Rica, contrary to the laws of both countries. On the other hand, Guatemala's mildly leftist President Juan Jose Arevalo was quite willing to help Costa Rica's rightists if that would hurt old enemy "Tacho" Somoza...
...young salesman, Eugene F. McDonald Jr. hurt his head in an auto accident and became deaf in one ear. When he became the hard-driving boss of Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp., one of the biggest U.S. radiomakers, McDonald was shocked at the price of hearing aids. If a complete radio receiver sold for only $29, why should a simple amplifier (only part of a radio) cost more than six times as much? McDonald thought he could produce hearing aids as cheaply as radios and make them a profitable sideline...
...time it was ... in length five foote and two inches of assize." Martin Frobisher, pushing to the northwest,, met a less favorable reception. He rediscovered Greenland (rising "like pinnacles of steeples all covered with snow"), but the Eskimos chased him and his crew back where they came from, "and hurt the generall in the buttock with an arrow...