Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even when he is looking for sprinters and distance runners, Coach Edward Hurt of Baltimore's Morgan State College tries all his new prospects first at a quarter-mile. "Then we branch out from there," he says. This season, without branching too far, the Hurt system had turned up four of the most formidable quarter-milers in the business. Last week, in the climax of the Penn Relays, there was no catching them...
Morgan State's academic history goes back to 1867, when Methodist clergymen founded it as a school for Negroes. Its track history began when Coach Hurt was appointed athletic director in 1929. In those days Morgan had no track to run on, and Morgan's youngsters practiced on a gravel road that circled the campus. But as time passed, Morgan got itself a first-class, WPA-built running track, and Morgan athletes began to win their share of the meets with other Negro colleges in their own circuit...
...pace did prove too much for Umberto, 23. In the first half of the race he skidded off the road, wrapped his car around a pole, got out only superficially hurt. Other drivers had worse in store. Peter Richard Monkhouse's British Healey somersaulted into a field and he died in the crash; Alvasio Bassi was crushed to death when his car turned turtle in a sweeping skid on the slippery asphalt. Fatalities did not compare with 1938, when 23 spectators were killed when one racer skidded into a crowd (Mussolini banned the race the next year...
Lindsey's gadget was a thin metal shim vibrating against a metal plate set in a cow horn. It made a noise like a baby strangling and, Lindsey boasted, it would call any flesh-eating varmint-hawks, owls, coons, wolves or foxes. "They think it's a hurt rabbit," he said...
Newspaper editors have been reaching for their big type in almost every edition lately. They have been worrying about Communist infiltration--into the State Department, into the Executive Branch, even into Harvard Yard. Press treatment of the present charges and countercharges, claims and counterclaims, can hurt the nation just as the infiltration would. For, while statements such as those of Senator McCarthy are "news," continual headlining of unproved, unsubstantiated charges can produce an anxiety which itself should be feared...