Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some advocates of forced-draft growth dismiss the Administration's worries about price upcreep, argue that "mild" inflation does no harm. Harvard's Professor Emeritus Alvin Hansen, grand old man of the a-little-inflation-never-hurt-anybody school, points out that prices edged upward at an average rate of 2⅓ a year over the past 60 years, while the U.S. was achieving history's most remarkable record of economic growth...
...British had at first been hurt, angered and resentful at Khrushchev's "toothache snub" of Macmillan, and at the brutal cold-war speech Khrushchev delivered in Macmillan's temporary absence from Moscow (TIME, March 9). Learning of the world's displeasure at his remarks. Khrushchev had jauntily waved them aside as "only an electioneering speech."* In the final days of Macmillan's visit, the Russians turned mellow again. "You know our point of view, we know yours," said Khrushchev to Macmillan as they parted...
...Veritas Foundation is, however, entitled to present its case to the Alumni and the Administration. Members of the foundation have stated that they do not wish to hurt the Program for Harvard College, either as a tactic or as a contingent result of their campaign. Yet even allowing that they may consider the urgency of their appeal more imperative than the success of the Program, their sincertiy about not wishing to hurt the Program is open to question when they solicit for their own fund drive...
...considerateness sprout all over show business. One night, the story goes, Bachelor Manie wanted to get away from a girl who had a yen for him, lied that he had to fly to Detroit. Smitten, the girl offered to ride out to the airport with him. Rather than hurt her feelings, Manie wearily went to La Guardia, boarded a plane and flew to Detroit. A little more than a year ago, goes another story, Comedian Danny Thomas went to him for help with a project to benefit leukemia victims; Manie plunged into the project without letting anyone know that...
...Harvard and the Program," Foundation trustee William A. Robertson '31 asserted. For example, "we think the recent Zborowski case has hurt the program considerably." Zborowski, a research assistant in Social Anthropology, was convicted of perjury in connection with testimony on communist affiliations...