Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alte of West Germany, was not as well as he looked: he had come back from the Brussels Conference plagued with insomnia, able to sleep only under doses of drugs. At Brussels, after the meeting ended, he had seen Mendès-France for an hour. Every word had hurt. EDC was dead. Mendès said. "But my French friends tell me that EDC has a chance in the National Assembly," said Adenauer. "They lied to you " Mendès had replied curtly...
...horse, not to touch him, not to drive him." At Chicago's Arlington Park, when Imbros ran on a sloppy track in the Equipoise Mile, "our instruction was to ease the horse back to dead last as quick as possible because we didn't want to hurt...
...heart like a spring morning, and Duncan Macrae and Jean Anderson are fearfully true to life as the boys' Scottish Calvinist grandparents. The photography, by Eric Cross, fills the background with a balmy, natural murmur that seems to heal the young hearts as soon as they are hurt. All in all, The Little Kidnappers is one of the half-dozen best movies ever made about children...
...which were made by the present Prime Minister on the absolute necessity of having troops in Egypt for the defense of the Suez canal . . . may I ask whether this agreement has the Prime Minister's consent?" There was a roar of delight from the Labor benches; Churchill looked hurt. Slowly he rose, and the House fell quiet. He spread his arms wide and said simply: "I am convinced that it is absolutely necessary...
...Army-McCarthy squabble to a terse report was more or less like asking a mighty gale to become a zephyr. Last week Acting Committee Chairman Karl Mundt complained that Jenkins' "bulky" summary would take two days just to read, let alone digest. Down in Knoxville, a trifle hurt by his caucus-room pal's reflection on his distilling prowess, Jenkins replied testily: "It was reduced from a 7,424-page document down to 447 pages... accompanied by a brief that contained less than 450 pages...