Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because he could not overcome the crippling effects of disease. Everyone wants to help the poor athlete, but few consider the physically handicapped, than to the athlete! I wonder if those who extol the "sentiment" of school spirit can work up some sentiment for the persons who would be hurt by athletic preference...
...accept the blue ribbon for Dodge Stables, the judges got together to phrase their official comment. One wanted to say simply that Wing Commander was far ahead of the field. Said another judge: "I don't think we want to say that. We don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. Let's just say there's not another stud like him showing today...
...Moreno, seemed thoroughly pleased with the proceedings. Next, a girl acted out an unpleasant experience of two years ago, when she had needlessly hurt her father's feelings with something she said. When she had finished, the doctor told her to go through it again only correcting her errors this time. "How many of us do not wish we could re-enact something in the past and do it right? Psychodrama gives that opportunity. You see, we started out this afternoon with caricature and now we warm up and have some very tragic psychological problems presented...
Defense Secretary Louis Johnson's big budget-pruning shears were clipping the U.S. Navy where it hurt-in the wings. Aiming at a cut of nearly $1 billion in the current budgets of the three armed services, Johnson had ordered the Navy to lop off $353 million as its share and let the admirals decide where to do the trimming. Last week the Navy was obediently dismantling 21% of its air arm to meet the new ceiling. Twenty-eight Navy and seven Marine combat squadrons were being withdrawn from service; operations were being reduced at six air bases...
...shift into higher prices has not hurt Woolworth's. Last year the company grossed $623,942,000 (more than double what it did in its best five-and-dime days), for a net of $43,496,000. It expects to do just about as well in 1949. Many of its sales still come from small items: last year the company sold 26 million hairnets, 31 million combs, 100 million pounds of candy. And Store Manager Herbert H. Hocher assured Houstonians that price-conscious Woolworth's has not entirely abandoned the small-change standard. Said he: "We still have...