Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Middle. Leftists screamed. Rightist landowners replied that the alternative was to let Communists, who had already grievously hurt the Chilean economy by endless strikes in coal, copper and nitrates, take over the whole business of agricultural production. Gonzalez and his Radicals, who favored genuine, non-political unions, were caught in the cross fire...
...stock answer to suppliants was: "Wait until the Jews have their own chief rabbi here. Let him decide." He explained, without bitterness, that his motive was not a projection of the "eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth" doctrine. The Jews were too much hurt, he says. Along with other rabbis and chaplains he feels that the time is not yet ripe for Germans to be admitted into the Jewish faith...
...foot-&-mouth disease. By last week an epidemic had spread through ten states, and excited patrons were refusing perfectly good steak in Mexico City restaurants. Worst of all, the U.S., soundly fearing infection of its own herds, had banned the import of Mexican cattle. This was a deep hurt; 500,000 head shipped over the border each year make a big difference in northern Mexico's prosperity. Last week, while the U.S. Congress shoved through bills for veterinary help in stamping out Mexico's aftosa, Mexicans awaited the man who would have to take action. El Universal...
...British, Go!" Who could bring peace to a land thus split by doubt and fear and bordered by its neighbors' militant hatreds? The British, who had come to Greece as liberators, had failed. The presence even of a friendly, homesick, token-size British army hurt Greek philotimo (the kind of sensitive self-esteem that makes a Greek waiter deliberately dawdle if he is harshly addressed, and a Greek day laborer feel equal to his King). Others besides Communists hummed the popular Communist ditty: "British, Go from Our Land!" In Athens last week, a fashionable young lady remarked...
...Street, where he reads up on astronomy and physics for inspiration and paints in a bare back room. Painting is no fun, he says; "it has to be done with our insides, our heart, even our intestines. The painter is like a mother bearing a child. It has to hurt a lot-and the more it hurts the more healthy it is." Mystified onlookers were relieved to hear that it hurt Tamayo...