Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little that anyone could say in print today could conceivably have any real effect on the outcome of the election. But for those Democrats who still think in terms of '48, it doesn't hurt to say a last word about their candidate, either by way of praise or mere factual interpretation of what Adlai Stevenson stands...
...international thaw, which began with the death of Stalin and continued at the Big Four campfire at Geneva, may have diminished the momentum of NATO, but it hurt the Communists worse...
...Sultan's indiscretion played right into the plotters' hands. The Sultan's French advisers persuaded him that the French, already miffed, would be even more hurt if the rebels flew with him to Tunis in his private Super-Constellation. The Sultan saw the point. At the airport he explained his delicate problem to the rebel leaders, then took off without them...
...young. The rattle is a simple warning, not a love call, and males take only the briefest interest in the females. But male rattlesnakes have the odd custom of "wrestling" together, swaying their heads and bodies with a graceful rhythmic motion. The defeated snake is never bitten or otherwise hurt. Klauber is not sure of the purpose of the wrestling match. He thinks it may have some connection with mating, but admits that the emotions of rattlesnakes are hard to analyze...
Neville's performance noticeably hurt what is a kind of violin concerto of a play, with its alternations of the martial and the lyrical, of action and reaction, of brass-choired public spectacles and sad-fiddled private woes. The big scenes were for the most part handsomely played; in the rise and fall of Kings there were actors who could do rich justice to the king's English, and the Bard's, and Director Michael Benthall contrived much regal flow and movement...