Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem, and he faced up to it. The day after his confirmation he summoned Police Chief Pavone for a long night session, told him grimly that the government of Italy, and not the Communists, was going to break the Montesi case wide open. It did not matter who was hurt. Next morn ing Pavone resigned. Foreign Minister Pic cioni sent his resignation to Scelba, and it seemed likely that Scelba would accept it. Scelba appointed Minister Without Portfolio Raffaele de Caro, a Liberal, to make a full investigation, ordered Montagna's passport lifted, and an investi gation of Montagna...
...number of years, undergraduate organizations have ridden a unique gravy train: using tax-exempt lecture halls, they show motion pictures with the frank objective of making profits. But now they face a double squeeze. Film distributors, knowing that student showings hurt attendance at local commercial houses, say they will no longer give the groups 16 millimeter releases, while the Dean's Office, fearing that profits endanger the University's tax status, has become increasingly wary of the motives involved...
When asked if the University's new maid policy would affect an election, McGrath said, "It certainly won't hurt...
...their names from A (Fred Allen, Konrad Adenauer, Dean Achesoh) to Z (Darryl Zanuck, Vera Zorina. Babe Didrikson Zaharias). The names are his cast of characters in anecdotes which are interrupted only by items of news and occasionally "the kind of gossip that doesn't hurt anyone." A typical Lyons anecdote: "I owed the Trumans a dinner, for they had been our hosts on that memorable last night in the White House . . . During the cab ride [to a restaurant], I suggested a private screening of ... Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. He shook his head, glanced at Mrs. Truman...
...appeared in "The Lyons Den" didn't mind if Sylvia's quips were sometimes put in their mouths. Lyons occasionally blunts-or loses completely the point of a story. But most people don't seem to mind, since few people whose stories he tells ever get hurt...