Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...library with the works of Stalin and Mao Tse-tung and the proceedings of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, bound in calf. To help draft the plan, Mahalanobis got the services of ten Soviet economists to assist his staff. Mahalanobis has been called a Communist but denies it in hurt tones. "I have been only twice to Moscow but seven times to the U.S.," he says...
...Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Next week 3,000,000 Vietnamese will tear the cards down the middle and each will drop into a ballot box the picture of the man he wants to lead South Viet Nam. In this way the people will settle a dispute that has seriously hurt the democratic half of the country so sadly truncated at Geneva...
Upton's committee was supported by residents of other neighborhoods, who feared that a zoning change in the Shady Hill area might set a precedent which would hurt their own neighborhoods...
Berman's advice to those who wish Russian visas now is simply to apply and hope. "It's just a matter of luck," he says, adding that a cable to Khruschev can't hurt...
...Rebecca West and the late H. G. Wells (who were never married, either), Novelist Anthony West has a pretty fair idea of what it means to be a Dickie Savage. In Heritage, his third novel and his best, he gracefully charts young Savage's uncertain course from childhood hurt to freewheeling young manhood. In other hands this could have been a sour book; instead, it is intelligent, witty, and tolerant toward the childishness of the great...