Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well," said the announcer, his tone lush and breathless, "Esther just doesn't know what to do! She feels that she owes her husband Jack nothing; he hurt her in every way one person can. But now he's in need; he's alone and sick! What would you advise Esther if you were Ma? Well, Esther went over to see Ma, and now at about half past 5 in the late afternoon we find them on Ma's front porch. Listen...
...times Cecil would let go and roll over and over in the water. But Penelope, who after all weighs two pounds to Cecil's four, did not see what there was to be so ecstatic about. She didn't want Cecil around any more. Her tail hurt...
...Take that!" said the little man, and as newsreel cameras whirred, he slapped the young peer in the face. "It didn't hurt me a bit," said 33-year-old John Edward Poynder Grigg, second Baron Altrincham of Tormarton, as his assailant was led away, but throughout the length and breadth of the United Kingdom there were those, particularly among his peers, who felt Altrincham had got off a lot too easily. In Bow Street court next morning, the slapper proved to be a paid agent of a group of nostalgics who call themselves The League of Empire Loyalists...
...Realizing, as no stuffy conformist would, that the quickest way to become a U.S. peer is to confer the title on oneself, Dexter sensibly did just that. "It is the voise of the peopel," he explained in his firm, aristocratic prose, "and I cant Help it and ... it dont hurt A Cat ..." Born in 1747, America's first peer started life "Dressin of skins for briches & glovs," would probably never have grown too big for his briches had he not spent every penny of his savings buying up U.S. "Continentals" and state securities-and harvesting a fortune when...
...dual jobholding on health grounds. In Los Angeles this spring, a Western Industrial Medical Association declined to condemn dual jobholding, instead voted to give the problem more study after several members hailed moonlighters as heirs to the spirit of the nation's founders, insisted that hard work never hurt anybody...