Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time puncture the McCarthy balloon. In other words, Wendell Furry's testimony cannot be judged on moral grounds alone. It must be evaluated in the light of the very practical matter at hand. How do we stop unscrupulous politicians from making unsubstantiated attacks on American education, attacks that can hurt the proper functioning of universities? For a continuation of the type of investigation we saw Friday will heighten a fear within colleges, inhibiting free inquiry and honest opinion. Its effect on a gullible public may result not only in less funds for research, but also in a regrettable resistance...
...They would run at one another and kick one another and th'ow one another down and stomp on one another and grind their feet in one another and Ah don't know what-all-and jest as fast as one o' them'd get hurt, they'd tote him off and run another...
Last week the Prime Minister himself, U.S.-educated Kwame Nkrumah, the facile Twi tribesman whom Gold Coasters revere as "The Man," was summoned before a tribunal investigating malfeasance and graft. Scandal swirled around members of his Cabinet, and Nkrumah himself was hurt by it. From all over Africa came the mutters of hostile voices: "We told you so." The Blimps saw the scandal as proof that nature never intended that black men should govern themselves. Communists were delighted, for in the Gold Coast's troubles they saw an opportunity to discredit this best example of white colonialism peaceably surrendering...
...educators went to work more than a year ago, under the direction of a central committee headed by Presidents Gordon K. Chalmers of Kenyon College and William H. Cornog of Philadelphia's Central High School. The first thing they decided was that even the brightest students can be hurt by going to college too soon. Then they began devising advanced courses that pupils could take in school for full college credit. Last week the twelve participating colleges formally approved the recommendations made for courses in English, mathematics, Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, German, chemistry, biology, physics and history...
...England, whose Yankee pride and pocketbook have been hurt of late by the southward migration of the textile industry, could boast of checking its downward economic trend. While 21,000 textile jobs in the area disappeared during the year, more than that number opened up in such new fields as electronics and light metals.Typical of New England's Yankee ingenuity in creating new jobs was the feat performed by the little town of Harmony, Me. Its 700 harmonious citizens contributed $22,000 to pay one-third the cost of a new shoe factory which will employ 120 people...