Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation. We can take hope, however, in the ground swell that is arising. Until it becomes a roar of public disapproval, the little mouse will have to continue his "Fatigue Test," until from sheer pain and despair, he will close his tiny eyes and sleep, and his captors can hurt him no more...
Before the 30,000 Georgians gathered in Hurt Park, Eisenhower soon struck the right note. Said he: "It seems that some of the opposition spokesmen look upon this meeting as a revolution . . . Through generations they have been counting the votes of the South ahead of time, along with the cemetery tombstones and the vacant lots that they carry in the election rolls in some of the cities they run up north." The Georgians, who had heard complaints that Ike wouldn't conduct a "fighting" campaign, gasped and then let out a mighty roar of approval...
Levine focuses, with the rapt attention of a G.I. picking lice out of his clothes, on the seamy side of American life. Born and raised in Boston's South End slums, he knows the harsh, scrabbling lives of the poor, and he brings their hurt faces alive in his canvases. The stock characters in Levine's more preachy pictures-fat capitalists, leering politicians and sneering cops-always look like more than types; he paints them with real anger and a genius for caricature...
...this third and most important volume of his memoirs, telling of his ordeal, Hoover writes as a man in anguished earnest, a man whose pride of historical place has been irretrievably hurt. As Hoover sees it, he was far from being the helpless victim of uncontrollable economic forces. Though it may come as a surprise to many wounded veterans of the Great Depression, he insists that he knew just what to do, and was vigorously doing it when his opponents took power, threw away all his gains and prolonged the depression for seven more years...
...matinee so calmly that they were hardly jostled. Ambulances and police rescue squads began rolling as soon as the earth stopped shuddering. They found the downtown business section of Bakersfield hardest hit, but counted a remarkably light toll of two dead (from falling roofs) and 32 hurt. Property damage was estimated upwards from $20 million, adding to the $40 million caused by last month's quake and subsequent settling shocks...