Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eight days in jail never hurt anybody," said Juan Perón last year in one of his frequent pep talks to Buenos Aires police. Under this stern dictum, made legal by the "state of internal war" decreed after the 1951 army revolt, thousands of Argentines were in & out of jail during the past year. Usually they were arrested, jailed and released without any formal charge. And, almost without exception, the real reason was that they were known or believed to oppose the regime...
...that might keep the dust from dissipating properly. Only once have they had misgivings. Early in 1952, they warned eleven people at the Groom mine, 20 miles from the firing area, to get out-quick. The dust settled down on schedule, but there was not enough of it to hurt anybody...
...victim of a "quick pin," a peculiarity of the Olympic wrestling rules in which a pin is scored the instant the shoulders are on the mat. Until almost the end of the medal at 157. The other winners for the fought his opponent on even terms. Fuller was hurt in this match, and had to withdraw from the meet...
...They wanted to be in the limelight. They hurt themselves by splitting off and are now beginning to realize it," Mulvihill said...
Fifty-nine passengers were hurt, only eight seriously (the worst injury was a fractured pelvis). No one in the station was injured. And Engineer Brower-who had stuck courageously to his cab and kept his "hand upon the throttle and his eye upon the rail" until the bitter end- stepped out of the awful wreckage of the locomotive without a scratch to show for his experience...