Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years upholstery had become infested with beetles, maggots and moths. Hairpins were found rusted into her hair; she had not washed it for 15 years. On her deathbed, the 72-year-old recluse told a nurse stories of her bitter childhood: of running to her mother when she was hurt, of being rebuffed, and then of seeking out her grandmother and crying "Nobody loves me." Her grandmother had replied coldly, "Nobody loves a crybaby." "After that," said the dying old woman, "I knew my only friend was my pillow...
LeBaron, who had hurt his throwing arm in practice, threw only six passes. His famed double-spin as T-formation quarterback was rusty and his sleight-of-hand fakery ineffective as his line kept caving in. His net yardage from scrimmage was minus 43; Celeri's was almost as bad-minus 39. After the game, LeBaron made the day's most sensible observation: "There's no substitute for a coach." But the highly partisan crowd was happy; LeBaron...
...compose despite his duties as president of Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music and director of publications for music publishers G. Schirmer, Inc., did not quite want to say his latest work was his best: "I have no stepchildren; if I slighted one work, it would feel hurt." But he had tried to compose a work "on the highest musical plane, exploiting the virtuosity of the violin and not just showing it off." The concerto had, he said, "a good deal of melody-and melody is the bread and butter of music...
...other A League contests, Dunster beat Leverett, 28 to 20, and Lowell hurt the second-place hopes of Dudley with...
...cancellation could be the beginning of a healthy reassessment of Harvard's whole football picture. You don't have to be too much of an expert to figure out that the Stanford game caused approximately 30 percent of last fall's injuries, or that the 44 to 0 licking hurt all season. The team was never the same after its horrendous western trip...