Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shelter. When at last the rescue plane appeared, they got directions by signal light to walk to the nearest open water, eight miles away. A trail over the ice was blazed for them with flags and dye markers dropped from the plane. Five walked; the sixth, more badly hurt than the rest, was drawn on an improvised sled to the water's edge, where another flying boat picked them up and flew them back to the tender Pine Island. Among them was the Pine Island's commanding officer, Captain Henry H. Caldwell, who had gone along...
...ditch in the Atlantic, Boothe saw a white strip beneath him. He had only five minutes' gas supply left when he leveled off over the deserted sands of Jones Beach, made a belly landing. He and the copilot were cut and shaken up; no one else was hurt, but the ship was wrecked. G.C.A. (see above) might have saved that...
...fortunate were the crew and passengers of a charter plane flying from Miami to Newark the same night. Trying for an emergency landing in southern New Jersey, Pilot Robert Sheker could not see the field, crashed in a patch of woods. Three were killed, 19 hurt...
Where It Would Hurt Most. "Next they told her to assume the angle-kneeling with her head down on her arms, which were flat on the floor. Her buttocks were up and her legs apart. Each girl walked behind her and hit her three times with a paddle, very hard. They seemed to know where it would hurt most. They didn't hit her horizontally, but between her legs, toward her sexual organs. With every hard blow she would fall down flat. She cried and screamed...
Blunden defends Shelley's first efforts at "Gothic" romances (he wrote several at Eton and Oxford) as honest, would-be commercial work; Horrid Novels were popular. Shelley enjoyed Oxford, holding his own there with what Blunden calls his "wickedly perfect politeness." He was really surprised and hurt when his love of epistolary arguments and pamphleteering got him expelled for printing a reasonable discussion on The Necessity of Atheism...