Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cabinet went so far as to summon the army's Chief of Staff to brief it on the consequences of quitting NATO-only to arrive at the obvious decision that Greece, for all its anger, would hurt itself most by giving up its only defense against Communism...
...inconvenient," said Rickett. "If you have to go to the toilet, for example, it's embarrassing to have to ask somebody to help you, and it's hard to sleep with your hands behind you, but it's not bodily harmful. It doesn't really hurt...
...kill Farouk and all his stooges in the palace. We had 15 groups of three officers each to do the killings. But we decided the plot was too complicated, and we called it off at the last moment. If we failed to kill the King, the country would be hurt. If we succeeded, what then? Chaos?" A few days later they learned that there was to be a cleanup of officers. "We knew that they had our names." A plan was decided upon: 1) control of the army, 2) control of the country, 3) dismissal of the King...
...season. To hear Harvey Knox tell it, Ronnie will win it singlehanded. "Maryland? Why, if Ronnie don't throw for five or six touchdowns, I'll disown him. I'll cream him." Red Sanders suffered from a little more professional pessimism: "If we get hurt in one or two places, we could go down pretty fast...
...knew the secrets. "Well, there was his half brother Philipp [20 years his senior] whom he suspected of being his mother's mate . . ." Jones guesses that this half brother may have given young Sigmund some joking version of the facts of life that may have hurt the child. This relatively trivial explanation of what Jones justly calls a noble striving is typical of a danger that psychoanalysis often faces the danger of keeping its eyes not on the heights but on the mushrooms. But Analyst Jones is also conscious of the heights when he concludes...