Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force of personality, flattery, or any combination of these. Since he has to keep in mind not only tomorrow's vote but the possibly more important votes to be counted next week, next month, next year, he has to work incessantly at building up good will and avoiding hurt feelings. Says Lodge: "I walk on eggs some of the time...
There are times when it's best to show muscle, and this is one of them. Nothing discourages a trouble-maker more than the possibility that he might get hurt...
...reaction was predictable, and some of it hurt. In Canada, Toronto's Globe and Mail asked: "What is the difference-leaving aside the bloodshed and brutality in Budapest-between what the Russians did in Hungary and what the U.S. has done in Lebanon? The comparison will outrage most Americans, but most of the world's population will draw it." Unfortunately, much of the world's population did. Other reactions...
...been recession favorites. As investors switched to "hardware" stocks, Lorillard dropped 3½ to 67¼; General Foods slid 1¼ to 62¾. "A whole new set of uncertainties now faces us," said John W. Finley, vice president of Blair & Co. "A stock like Lorillard would really be hurt by an excess profits tax, because such a tax penalizes a company with sharply rising earnings...
...doubted that Lever would be hurt as a competitor if the U.S. wins its case. But many businessmen wondered just how a Government victory would help protect competition...