Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power now-I got the 'nointing!" From the box beside him came the whirring buzz of a rattlesnake. Cried Miller: "The word of God says: 'In my name . . . they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them...
...Roosevelt finally made public reply, in the Ladies' Home Journal, to Jim Farley's public charge, in Collier's, that the Parleys had got a moderately cool shoulder in White House social life. Wrote the ex-First Lady: "Unwittingly in some way I ... seem to have hurt both Mr. and Mrs. Farley. For that I am genuinely sorry . . . but I feel I never treated them any differently. . . ." Being a member of the Cabinet, observed Mrs. Roosevelt, implied that one was considered "a man of parts." She pursued sweetly: "Mr. Farley failed to understand this. His tremendous emphasis...
...slipped in, beaming. He was handed a veterinarian's hypodermic syringe-a horrible weapon with a needle as thick as a pencil and huge glass cylinder full of a gummy looking red fluid. He prodded the recumbent reporter. Vaccaro winced and the President said, "This won't hurt a bit, Tony...
...three U.S. citizens complains that his feet hurt. Two out of three adults wear spectacles. One out of five is troubled by a degree of deafness. Two out of ten can't learn to whistle. One-tenth of the population is left-handed and less than a third can remember the numbers on their automobile license plates. One in three has a terrible time getting up in the morning, but only one in five has any difficulty in dropping off to sleep. The average citizen goes to bed at 10 o'clock, gets...
...think you are shooting at Elliott Roosevelt with a shotgun and Mr. Hughes might get hurt in the process. He [Flanagan] told me: 'We are shooting at him with a cannon.' He may have said a rifle or some other one-bullet weapon. What he was trying to convey was that it wasn't a scattergun they were using...