Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eleven hundred houses, a fourth of Atami, burned. So did 37 inns, six hospitals and the city hall. Eight hundred people were hurt. The mains were faulty and the firemen stoutly refused to use sea water; it might hurt their pumps...
...Real Bad Hurt. Betty's life began on Feb. 26, 1921, in Battle Creek, Mich., "by the railroad tracks between Postum and Kellogg." She was two when her father, a railroad brakeman named Percy Thornburg, drifted off to California with another woman. Soon after, the mother took Betty and Marion to Lansing. They did not hear of Thornburg again until 1937, when he killed himself in a Los Angeles suburb and left the two girls $100 each...
...pier. She hit a nail in one of the pilings and snagged her left cheek, near the eye; the scar is still faintly noticeable. "It made my inferiority complex worse," says Betty. "The kids called me 'Bad-eye Bodie' and nicknames like that, that hurt real bad. So I acted fresh and tomboyish, as if I was tougher than anybody on the block...
...public, the Democrats tried to look only outraged. In private, they also looked worried, and many a politico said gloomily that even if McCarthy found no culprit, he had still hurt the Democratic Party with all his hue & cry. At Key West, President Truman called in newsmen to try to repair the damage. After passing out hamburgers and lemonade, he turned the full weight of his office against the Senator from Wisconsin. McCarthy's charges, said the President, talking a little extremely himself, had become the greatest asset the Kremlin now had in the cold...
...woman remark: "Oh, this isn't Prague." On the field below were U.S. military planes. In a hubbub of surprise and alarm, the liner rolled out, taxied up to the line. U.S. officers yanked open the hatch, yelled: "Get out, get out! No one is going to be hurt. You are in Munich. One of your pilots doesn't like Czechoslovakia...