Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disgusted." But it was left to Defense Secretary Wilson to whack the Chamber where it hurt. Asked by reporters to comment on Chamber charges that his department has wasted "billions" in bungled buying, Charlie Wilson replied: "I said to some of my friends that I was disgusted about the Chamber of Commerce. Security can't be cheap, you know. It's all right to be supercritical if you want to, if you have any constructive suggestions. But I don't know how to get 4,000,000 [Defense Department] people to be smarter quicker." Defending...
...politics, the odium of divorce is diminishing rapidly. Anthony Eden was the first British Prime Minister to be a divorceod man and seemed not to have been hurt by the fact. He included in his Cabinet three other divorced men: Sir Walter Monckton, Secretary for Scotland James Stuart, and President of the Board of Trade Peter Thorneycroft. When Harold Macmillan succeeded Eden, he appointed another divorced man to the Cabinet, Minister of Education Lord Hailsham. Minister of Defense Duncan Sandys recently separated legally from Winston Churchill's eldest daughter Diana...
CASTOR-OIL SHORTAGE is coming. World demand for next four years will be 565 million Ibs., supply 540 million Ibs., says Department of Commerce. Pinch will hurt U.S. industries using castor oil, e.g., makers of grease, drugs, soap, lubricants for jet planes, plastics, nylon bristle...
...drops were reported by St. Regis Paper Co. and Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp.; profits were also down for Crown Zellerbach Corp. (66? a share v. 1956's 86?), Scott Paper Co. (66? v. 72?) and Allied Paper Corp. (90? v. $2.30). High costs of labor and materials hurt Crane Co., Borg-Warner Corp., Carborundum Co., and Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp...
...looking for trouble. I don't pretend to be smart or tough, and I am only going to tell you one thing-that I am a nervous type, and don't come here and start trouble for me, because somebody is going to get hurt." Said the unionist: "Trouble? You don't know the first damn thing about trouble. Why, we'll give you so much trouble here that you'll get ulcers." Answered Pozusek: "Ulcers? That don't worry me, because I am getting the damn things for the last 15 years...