Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shaky scaffolding of Italian politics, Premier Alcide de Gasperi worked warily to mortar together a new government for Italy, his eighth since the war. He could no longer count on the three small parties of his coalition to help carry the hod. Two were so hurt by the June elections that they barely counted any more, and the Democratic Socialists of Giuseppe Saragat, cut down to 19 seats, decided to quit the team...
Forces of Chaos. By last week four people had been killed, 200 seriously injured, a thousand hurt. The city was paralyzed, and a general strike was spreading across Bengal. Mobs surged unchecked through the streets. From Lucknow, Jawaharlal Nehru commented despairingly: "Looking at happenings in Calcutta," he said, "it seems as if Indians are a mad race. We achieved freedom by peaceful means ... It will be a bad day for India if leadership passes into the hands of such forces of chaos." At week's end the government surrendered to the rioters, called off the fare increase...
...year ago, in the North Korean town of Kaichun, a native woman of 40 politely addressed Philip Deane as "grandfather." Deane, still under 30, felt a little hurt. Then he looked in a mirror and was shocked by what he saw. But by that time he had already been a prisoner of the North Koreans for two years...
HOUSEWIVES can expect to pay more for coffee next month because of frosts which nipped Brazil's coffee trees, damaged up to 80% of the 1954 coffee crop in some areas (see Latin America). Though this year's crop was not hurt, coffee roasters have hiked wholesale prices 3 ? a Ib. just the same, in expectation of higher wholesale prices next year...
...record five craft went the whole way; no boatman was badly hurt. Elapsed-time records showed that the winner was Erich Seidel, who, after starting last, had skimmed upright down the wild Arkansas in a record 3 hr. 4 min. 32 sec. While cheers echoed off the Rockies, Winner Seidel stood by unresponsively, fighting a case of stomach cramps. His companion. Theo Rock, who wound up second, sang a swan song. "For a man of my age, this race is enough," vowed he. "There is nothing in Europe to compare with...