Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three firemen were injured in fighting the blaze, but none of the ten occupants of the building was hurt. One of the firemen was overcome by smoke, and the other two suffered cuts and bruises...
Despite the loss of Ty Smith, who hurt his leg last winter, the high jumping squad does well. Bryan Reynolds, who spends most of his time playing spring football, has equalled Smith's 6 feet in practice, and Don Whitehead is improving fast...
Patient and aggressive by turns, Carl Vinson gave ground where it hurt the least, bulled through the vital points, knocked down a host of emasculating amendments. A Republican attempt to put a 4,000,000-man limit on the armed forces was rejected; so was a move to require specific congressional approval before dispatching drafted troops to Europe...
...shell of a boy's personality and exposed the religious exaltation of the boy without once falling into bathos. During the watch in the chapel, Richard's deepest thoughts and feelings are disturbed by weak flesh and childish imaginings: he is kneeling, and his knees and back hurt, disturbing the purity of his devotions; he remembers his silly effort at self-mortification through eating worms; he imagines himself upon the cross and hearing the school's best athlete whisper, "Jesus that kid's got guts." And dismayed because every other thought seems tinctured with pride...
...fact that Greenewalt married the boss's daughter did not hurt him at Du Pont, but he still had to make his own way. He became an expert in high-pressure synthesis, a new field which opened the door to all kinds of chemical processes, (e.g., urea, long-chain alcohols), won 18 patents, most of them used by Du Pont. It was Greenewalt's work on nylon-the biggest treasure yet turned up in Du Pont test tubes-which put him far up on the skimmer chart. Du Pont's brilliant scientist, Dr. Wallace Carothers, first materialized...