Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard" for practices in hiring faculty members. He termed these practices "undignified, even bordering on the unethical." He referred particularly to the dickering over rank and salary which comes when small colleges "try to get away with paying a man as little as possible." These practices, Rogers said, have hurt the profession in the eyes of the public...
...corruption in Tuscany (80% of whose towns are Red-governed). By last week 56 mayors and local administrators had been put in jail. Not all were Communists, but most were. "McCarthy-ism," cried the Communist L'Unità, in incoherent rage. The campaign had a double effect: it hurt the Communist treasury and exposed the Communist moral...
...years now?in Europe at least?the Communists have made 'peace' their private property. Even though people knew what the Communists meant, the idea in their hands helped them and hurt us. It looks now as if your Mr. Dulles is going to take peace away from the Communists and restore it to its real meaning...
...leaders did not understand that the American school system had done its work. New roots had grown. Tammany's favor-doing had become socialized by the incipient welfare state. The Irish Tammany bosses lived on sentimental memories of past grandeur, and were puzzled and hurt when the Tiger's roar made no man cringe. De Sapio had far more modest and realistic views of the new Tammany's scope...
...incident of the chalk line, one child was stoned with pebbles. Two more decided next day that they had better withdraw from the petition "because it might hurt our daddy's business." And the Platt children? At week's end-despite their schoolmates' gallant try-they were still barred from school...