Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bluntly, it seems to me that the snare that holds us is fear - fear of losing our allies, fear of the future judgments of history, fear of getting hurt ourselves. Where would America be today if the Pilgrim Fathers had let this kind of fear dictate their actions? As the signers of the Declaration of Independence said, 'For the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.' It was a solemn pledge of all they held dear...
...China's aggression in Korea stiffened the Japanese opposition to Communism. Japan's Communist Party membership has dwindled to a new low. U.S. prestige, which suffered elsewhere, has apparently not been hurt in Japan by Korean defeats. The Japanese public is well acquainted with U.S. war potential. "Pearl Harbor victory" is what they call the current Communist successes...
Challenger Oma made the demonstration as hard as possible. Though he appeared to be walking duck-footed into the champion's best punches, Oma never seemed to get hurt. In his flailing eagerness to please, Charles inadvertently struck low blows in the fifth and eighth rounds, and the crowd booed him. Even the fouls didn't seem to stagger Oma much. In the tenth round, nonetheless, before the crowd realized that Oma had actually been hurt, Oma came apart. Slack-jawed and befuddled from a final series of lefts & rights to the head, he staggered vacantly around...
...hurt the war potential of China." added Fairbank, "because it's not concentrated. The massacre of the people that would ensue would be called 'victimizing the Chinese' by the people of Asia, and would hurt our reputation seriously...
Davison, like the other East fullbacks, could gain nothing up the middle, and is hurt badly. Clayton and McCraney alternated at quarterback, and called plays full, but were hampered by the ineffectiveness of the fullbacks. Clayton used his pillar bootleg play well, but was equalled in that department by Fran Nagle (Nebraska), West quarterback...