Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dunster single-wing couldn't find the right formula, and Eliot coasted to the win, the game ending with the ball deep in Funster territory. Jack Simpson, Dunster linesman, playing an excellent defensive game, was hurt in the off-tackle slant that was the next-to-last play of the contest. Simpson's injury was not serious, but he will spend the night in Stillman Infirmary...
...another thing, the moose proved itself emotionally unable to cope with the problem of turning a corner. It would travel at high speeds in a straight line, but when faced with a left or right turn, would come to a complete halt and hang its head, confused and hurt. Whereupon the driver was forced to alight from the sulky and physically push the moose until it was once again aimed in the correct direction and high speed travel could proceed. The coming of winter matorially affected neither the animal's speed nor his inability to turn corners...
...walnut-paneled room in Washington, the Civil Aeronautics Board opened preliminary meetings last week to see if National Airlines, Inc. should be put out of business. The case for dismemberment was strong last year: hit by a ten months' strike and hurt by CAB's grounding of all DC-6s, National lost almost half its passenger traffic, turned in a $1,946,041 deficit in 1948. But last week, National's President George T. ("Ted") Baker was hardly acting like a man who expected to shut up shop. He announced that he would launch a new, luxury...
...lunch with some oldtime sport stars and felt a strange, sentimental feeling taking possession of him. Last week, Pegler told about it in an off-form column without a single word of abuse for anybody: "I felt a little bashful, a little estranged . . . wondering whose feelings I might hurt ... by failing to recognize him on the instant . . . and a little sad, too . . . Unquestionably, the champions are special. There is a style and a look to them. They wear greatness as a habit...
...only a fortnight later, a V-2 went wild internationally. It hit four miles from the center of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (pop. 48,881), made a fearful bang and dug a crater 24 feet deep and 40 feet in diameter. No one was hurt, and the people of Juarez, enjoying their spring fiesta, thought the bang was part of the show. But the diplomatic repercussions were painful. The White Sands brass, covered with cold sweat, told Karsch to work out a system for riding herd on rockets...