Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Personal Touch. By his rough-handedness, Khrushchev had done the West a favor. "The only people he hurt." said a French official, "are those who were disposed to compromise with him." No longer could "open-minded" Americans and Western Europeans seriously argue that the West could purchase a settlement by a complicated web of mutual concessions. Just as Stalin by his insensate aggressiveness sparked NATO and the Marshall Plan, so Khrushchev had forced the West to recognize that the Berlin crisis would continue until a stout and resolute Western stand made it plain that he could not have...
...head in the holy city of Najaf when party militants tried to turn a Soviet embassy official's courtesy call on a Shia Moslem leader into a Communist rally. Outraged, Moslem monks and youths, holding aloft copies of the Koran, fought a pitched battle against them. Scores were hurt...
...Poor. Somehow it all comes through; hurt, humor, sentimentality and a touch of sidewalk cynicism survive in the pale, lined face. And somehow it all seems more real than the too-gay sex that Lilo (wife of a French marquis) flaunts like a cancan girl, that Vicky Autier (a protegee of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor) flashes with calculated abandon. Compatriots abroad in a big city. the three women speak of each other with affection. "If we were all in Paris at the same time." admits Lilo, "we would probably tear each other to pieces." Explains Vicky: "Lilo...
...their wits' end to find something, aside from financial support, which can worthily occupy the time and energy of intelligent alumni. To put it harshly, the support and good will of the alumni may not in itself mean much to an institution, but its absence can hurt. If there is not an apparent, active, or even noisy alumni support for a school, that fact will have to be explained to legislators, donors, parents and even prospective students...
...Bell was called out of retreat to testify in more than 600 patent lawsuits before his patents expired in 1893-94. Western Union, which had a monopoly on telegraphic communications, at first turned down an offer to buy Bell's patents. When Bell's invention began to hurt its business, it came out with a better transmitter developed by Thomas Edison, went into competition with Bell. Dozens of independent telephone companies sprang up, creating what one observer called "a state of enthusiastic uncertainty...