Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tornado, sixth and worst in Blackwell since 1912, destroyed and damaged 500 houses, hurt 493 people and killed 19, caused a $10 million loss. The whirlwind ripped surfaces off the highways, wrapped a big electric refrigerator around a tree stump, tossed a wrecked pickup truck onto the second floor of a ruined brick house. Sweeping north across the amber wheat, the deadly funnel killed one family's five children in Oxford, Kans. A farmer three miles south of Udall saw it coming: "It sounded like a bunch of jets and looked black as an oil slush pond. I didn...
Hell, with the radio, any idiot can make a speech if he can read. It has hurt the country, too. We don't know our candidates like we used to." Ten Carloads of Horses. Knight's parents both came of solid, pioneer, Mormon stock. His maternal grandfather, Judge John Milner, was a British lawyer who went to Provo, Utah for his health, became Brigham Young's secretary, a Mormon, and a fount of culture and learning...
They may start a war, but nobody really gets hurt. The custard pies fly in a multitude of directions, but at the end the warriors are apt to be licking meringue rather than their wounds...
...rigid price fixing, the Germans have snatched up a fat slice of the Swiss watchmakers' markets in Scandinavia, the Far East and the U.S., with prices as much as 20% lower. On top of that, Swiss watchmakers, whose exports to the U.S. were already dropping, were further hurt by the 50% boost in U.S. tariffs last summer (TIME, Aug. 9). Their exports to the U.S. market dropped from $68 million in 1953 to $51 million in 1954, and are still running down. As a result, price cuts within the industry and to foreign buyers have become so common that...
Coach Munro substituted Tom Cooney in his place, but Cooney hurt his knee a short while later. Munro's lack of depth in the goal then told the story. He moved Lindsay Fischer from the midfield into the nets, but Fischer was inexperienced and Dartmouth drove the ball past him time and again...