Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmers have known that runaway inflation is dangerous to them. That's why you don't hear much grumbling." Said Bill Davidson, an Iowan who went to Europe last fall with 21 other farmers for a hard, first-hand look at conditions: "We needed to get hurt, if we didn't get set for this...
...years ago, on the insistence of Communist cabinet members, Paris had stopped all trade with Spain, and closed the frontier. No other nation had gone that far, though most U.N. members joined in resolutions against Axis-loving Francisco Franco. By last week the French felt that the gesture had hurt French exports more than it had hurt Franco. They called it off, reopened the border...
...shifting into the single-wing, he would shift into an L formation if he elected not to run from the T. He never used a spinner (one of the Crisler essentials) because he built his attack around the straight-ahead over power of Vinnie Moravec. When Moravec got hurt, it was too late to scrap the system. Here is the biggest single problem facing Valpey: in order to employ the razzic-dazzle, split-second timing offensive he knows so well, he must find a fullback who can spin and who can handle the ball slickly...
...Gratitude. Mr. Wada, apparently more hurt by gibes at himself than by revelations of his inhumanity, compressed his lips, looked wanly at the floor. Finally, Tokuda and Wada heard their sentences. The "Mad Doctor" would be hanged. Mr. Wada would get life imprisonment instead of the rope; he had merely been an interpreter relaying orders...
...Sacheverell Sitwell and his brother Osbert and sister Edith sued for libel (and won) when London's Reynolds News declared that oblivion had claimed them and "they are remembered with kindly, if slightly cynical, smiles." Sacheverell Sitwell's latest reminiscences make it clear that the comment hurt. But it is a whole school of writing, or even a whole civilization, that is remembered with a kindly and cynical smile, and The Hunters and the Hunted suggests that there were values within it which the present might consider before consigning it to oblivion...