Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election in November, and perhaps not even the primary. The G.O.P. turned on the pressure, urged him to withdraw in favor of able ex-Congressman Clifford Case. Finally, party leaders told Hendrickson bluntly that he must go -but let him know that such unselfish sacrifice would not be forgotten. Hurt, and a little bewildered, Hendrickson withdrew this spring. Thus Case was assured the Republican nomination...
...City, meanwhile, F-475 poured bullets into the vitally needed Shell gasoline storage tanks, and 40,000 gallons squirted out. One of the five forts that guard the capital was bombed and set on fire. Arbenz' emphasis, in his radio talk, on how much the air attacks had hurt, was an eloquent restatement of an old principle: in air war, as in poker, a low hand can win the biggest pot when the opponents hold nothing...
...dispensary, Granny went ,"on trail." Outfitted in a tropical helmet and web belt with water flask, she would visit the tiny thatched cailles that dot the ravines and mountains. She told the surprised Haitians about the dispensary and the need to come immediately when they were sick or hurt. She told them about the school. And wherever she could she would wage a persistent Protestant war against the voodoo gods, Papa Legba (who is interlocutor between men and the gods), Maitresse Erzulie (of love) and Damballa Wedo (the good serpent of the sky), and against the houngans (priests) and mambos...
Sport & Luxury. To keep tariffs down and to forestall quotas, the British will rely most heavily on the argument that they have not hurt U.S. sales but have created a new U.S. market. Despite imports of 600,000 last year, sales...
Missed Point? When G.M. dealers wrote in to complain that the story would hurt their sales, the W.SJ. printed the letters and an editorial: "When a newspaper begins to suppress . . . news, whether at the behest of its advertisers or on pleas from special segments of business ... it will soon cease to have readers." The Journal, rejoined G.M., seemed to miss the point. "To the extent that this was a reporting of news derived from sources free to divulge the information, we have no objection . . . even though such information, published many months in advance of the introduction of new models...