Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was little jazz left on 52nd Street. Even the customers had changed. There were fewer crew haircuts, pipes and sports jackets; more bald spots, cigars and paunches. Said an old swing musician : "It was a pretty rugged street to start off with and you couldn't hurt it much. But it's lost its charm...
...Council chamber than in the embattled Holy Land. The comic effort to make it, however, followed logically from past U.S. efforts to please everyone, which had ended by pleasing no one. Zionists were crying traitor at the U.S. The U.S. position in the strategically important Arab world was hurt in ways that might cost years and possibly blood to repair...
Eagerly, the cast studied their parts. Ezzio Caffari, the bootmaker, kept his eyes on the script as he worked, glanced only now & then at the nails he drove into the boots. "If some of them stick out it may hurt a bit," he said, "but they'll know it's for the cause." After only four days of preparation, the show was set to open. The whole village turned...
...trying to find out, for example, what people think of the Marshall Plan. Are they for it or against it? Do they believe it will help or hurt conditions in their countries? Do they believe it would make war with Russia more likely? Will it stop the advance of Communist ideas? We want to know what people think about the United Nations, about a United States of Europe, about who is gaining in the present conflict between the U.S. and Russia, and which side they think will be ahead 20 years from...
...Pedro) had a "professional touch." The gallery director felt obliged to say that Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien "has definite promise. . . . There's an oriental simplicity about her watercolor, Autumn Leaves, which many artists work for years to capture." One critic summed up: "I hate to hurt their feelings, but almost all of the work ... is fairly...