Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortnight ago in another meet, he was even relaxed enough to take a crack at the broad jump, finished second with 23 ft. 3½ in. But he hurt his hip in the process, and Coach Chambers served notice that Dave would jump no more until after the Olympic trials in June. Said Chambers: "I just got a letter from [Big Ten Commissioner] Tug Wilson. He said that sometimes it's been known that a man can get hurt broad jumping and please would I consider leaving Dave out of it for a while. Tug said that Dave could...
...clock one morning last week when a car carrying four bluejackets plunged over an embankment and hit a tree in Arlington, Va. Two of the sailors were scarcely hurt, but two died with broken necks...
...great concern about his health. He tried to overcome that handicap. "If I felt any better," he said, "I'd send for a psychiatrist, because I'd know it was mental." When union-labor leaders turned him down in a dramatic hotel room conference, Barkley withdrew, deeply hurt. Two days later he went before the convention to make one of his best speeches and receive a hero's farewell. Harry Truman still believes, according to his memoirs, that Barkley could have been nominated if he had not given...
Nicholas testified: "I admit I sent two of my children to a colored school because they are dark, and I didn't want to hurt them." When Nicholas desperately produced two tickets to a 1955 rugby game to prove that he sat in the European section, the magistrate looked at the stubs, barked: "Actually, you used Gate Five? Would you deny that the gate you used was the one used to admit colored and Indians?" "III don't know," stammered Nicholas, cringing...
...while, but he will abruptly rise and leave the room for no reason at all. He often likes to be alone, begins locking up his possessions to keep them from younger brothers and sisters. He makes detailed criticisms of his parents' faults, and his parents are often hurt by his constant withdrawal or by his tendency to lavish his affection on a friend...