Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably correctly, that he was the victim in part of Harry Truman's cockiness. He ruefully recalled the President's arrogant preelection remark in St. Louis that any farmer or laborer who voted Republican should have his head examined. The angry Lucas was sure the crack had hurt him, that Illinois voters had decided among other considerations that it was time to take Harry Truman down a peg by rejecting Scott Lucas...
...famed, indiscreet letter came home to roost last week. Republican Congressman W. Kingsland ("Dear King") Macy, to whom it was written, had spread copies of it around, in hopes that it would embarrass Tom Dewey (TIME, Oct. 23). It didn't; it was King Macy who got hurt. When the final count was in, Macy had been beaten, by 126 votes, by Democrat-Liberal Ernest Greenwood, a retired schoolteacher. Macy, running for his third term in the House, angrily demanded a recount. It was the first time in 36 years that the district had failed to elect a Republican...
Despite this strategy, the new walkout had not hurt service as much as the strikers had hoped, and the public had feared. Long-distance service in about a third of the U.S. was affected for a while, but emergency long-distance calls were accepted-with the caller usually defining whether it was an emergency to him. At week's end, even this was not necessary. Local service was disrupted only in scattered places...
...During the first two years of U.M.S., colleges would not have students. Small schools might have to close altogether, and many would perhaps never reopen. There would also be a break in the flow of trained personnel into civilian professions, a loss which, deferment plan backers think, would seriously hurt the nation's ability to come through the international crisis...
...matter which program the Congress chooses, there will be harmful effects. It is a question of which plan's defects will hurt the fewer people and do so for the shorter time. The situation ten years away must be considered...