Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...condemns them. Kindness, fidelity and honesty are rarely portrayed-and of course never mentioned by name-but their rarity makes them all the pleasanter when encountered. Meanwhile O'Hara extracts all the flavor to be found in the manners and talk of U.S. types who have been hurt and hardened in a corrupt world...
...Dewey trip did not worry them. Dewey, they knew, was out in front, Taft was currently a bad second. But Tom Dewey, they figured, had hurt himself by advertising a political trip as a vacation, and by trying to line up Dewey-bossed delegations to the convention. Whistled Taft strategists as they rounded a curve: "The best chance the party has to win the 1948 election is to stage a completely unbossed convention...
...chartered British Skyways York, just in from Moscow, overshot the London airport runway and nosed over. From the crushed cabin, Britain's Secretary for Overseas Trade J. Harold Wilson emerged and said casually: "Now I have got to see a doctor as my ribs hurt me." Next day he went to tell his chief, Sir Stafford Cripps, that Britain's trade mission to Moscow had also crashed. It was unlikely that the mission would return to Russia...
Quite Simple. Last week, it looked as though many Europeans were far ahead of their own leaders in understanding that it was more important to make the "Marshall approach" work than to keep Germany down or to keep somebody's schemes from getting hurt...
...them. She can print what she does about Hollywood people because she knows still fancier stuff that the mails would not carry, and because her own private life is blackmail-proof. And she knows how to turn her most outrageous mistakes into a joke. To one "planter's" hurt question why she had reduced his exclusive scoop to one line, low in her column (it was one of her mistakes), she crowed: "Bitchery, baby, pure bitchery!" Hedda delights, in fact, in calling herself The Bitch of the World...