Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Koreans who were described by General Walton Walker last week as making the "last gasp," still had some wind left. Despite the fact that they showed marked signs of hurt from incessant U.S. air attacks, the North Koreans last week managed to mount a heavy general attack all along the U.S. beachhead in Korea. It was an impressive and dangerous enemy effort, the fourth major Red try in one month to achieve a breakthrough (see below...
...press jumped on the Standard so hard that the doughty Beaver began to worry. At the start, he and Gunn had both agreed that the campaign was a fine idea, but the Beaver soon cooled. Not so Editor Gunn. There was no doubt that the whole affair had seriously hurt the Standard's professional prestige...
Other cuts were made where it would hurt Congressmen least: EGA, cut from $2.6 billion to $2.4 billion; the $12.5 million International Children's Fund, eliminated entirely; $26.9 million for the President's Point Four program, cut to $15 million-but later restored by a House vote after Harry Truman warned, "I can conceive of no more tragic blunder than to throw away this opportunity of doing so much to strengthen the cause of freedom at such little cost...
Merchant looked at the flies without emotion. "What the hell," he said, "I've been drinking coffee with flies in it for a month and it ain't hurt me yet." He took a big swallow...
Dismayed by the less-than-favorable publicity she had gotten, and hurt by the U.N.'s lack of appreciation, Mrs. Planas withdrew her offer and decided henceforth to devote more of her time to her church, a group called Spirit Science, of which she is president. In a chapel inside her house, Mrs. Planas conducts seances every Saturday. Three years from now, she said at week's end, "according to the spirits, I will become President of the Philippines...