Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point, simply to avoid the incessant heckling of makeup men who complained about the difficulties of shading her "nipple" nose, Barbara went to a plastic surgeon and had it bobbed. "It hurt," she said, "like the devil." The Hollywood payoff came when R.K.O.'s new boss Howard Hughes declared that Barbara had "no sex appeal." "That," said Barbara, "made me mad as hell." After 2½ years and four pictures, she and the studio parted company. "I was fired," is the way Barbara puts...
...Chronicler Patch, because he was much too absorbed in writing about economics to notice anything so obvious as rising living costs. Illness, whether his own or others', was ignored or dismissed with a shrug. "Her injuries," he informed Miss Patch, after 76-year-old Mrs. Shaw had been hurt in an automobile accident, "are only bruises and sprains and a troublesome hole in her shin plus two black eyes...
...rugged, fast Navy team had little trouble beating a tired varsity, 14 to 3, on April 4 at Annapolis. It was a costly game for the Crimson: midfielder Rip Lynch hurt a shoulder and was lost for the rest of the trip; Huebsch also injured a shoulder, but was out for only one game, Despite the high score, goalie Syd Clark excelled making 31 saves, many of them difficult...
...Robin Cruikshank of London's News Chronicle in a special broadcast to some 8,000,000 Britons. "That concerns all of us who love freedom. The Argentine is a long way off. We may never have seen La Prensa, but the freedom of all free men everywhere is hurt by such an attack . . . When liberty of the press is destroyed no other freedom is safe...
...seven sisters. She shrewdly believes in taking it easy. Now she only releases four records a year: "If you don't rush things, it gives the distributors and [disc] jockeys time to work one up before another comes along. In this business, you can get awfully hurt if you are too ambitious...