Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These one-man, grass-root surveys of public opinion leave me skeptical. People are polite by instinct and tend to tell the inquisitive stranger what they think the stranger wants to hear, or at least something that won't hurt his feelings...
...Jackson was the Bobcat's biggest ground gainer last year, but the visitors also have a swift halfback named Tom Ascani and a good quarterback in Bill Frederick. Frederick possesses both a .429 completion average and a 6 foot 5 inch end named Lou Sawchik. The combination could hurt today...
Bacon pointed out that students need take one look at their parents to know a few drinks will not hurt them. He said 70 million Americans, mostly parents, drink alcoholic beverages, but only four million are potential or confirmed alcoholics...
...road and watched the car with Meuler in it go somersaulting end over end down a steep, brushy, 100-yard slope. Below that, sheer cliffs fell away to the sea. But just before the car cleared the edge, Meuler was flung out. He was horribly hurt-one leg, a hip and his back were broken, his face was torn and his scalp split-but he rose, fell, rose again. Thomson scrambled downhill toward him and put a tourniquet on his bleeding leg. He took off his pants, covered Meuler with them, and scrambled up to flag a passing motorist...
...that 1) those in the lowest brackets pay the highest tax proportionately because they are forced to spend most of their income on living essentials, and 2) it cuts the buying power of the groups that buy the biggest share of goods, thus is apt to hurt sales. Moreover, a manufacturer's tax would pyramid if a retailer included it in the price on which he figured his markup. Thus a 5? tax on a manufactured item could get marked up to 10?. Above all, such a tax would cut sales now when there are evidences of overproduction...