Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that might spoil in another day and baked it into pies, which she put on sale in the morning. Occasionally she would catch shoplifters, but, instead of turning them over to the police, she would give them a little sermon, always aware that the disgrace of an arrest would hurt their families. Her son reflects that feeling. "Even when I was convinced that Hiss was a traitor," says Nixon, "I couldn't help thinking of his family and his friends, and how hard this was on them...
Presidential candidates can be decisively helped or hurt by fights in key states for Senator, governor and other offices. Some of the assets and liabilities are already apparent...
...Indiana, Senator William E. Jenner is a powerful vote getter but he is running for re-election against an even more popular figure: Governor Henry F. Schricker, a rather conservative Democrat who put Stevenson in nomination at Chicago. The Republican position is hurt by the fact that Jenner and Ike are poles apart on foreign policy. Last week Jenner said: "If I am wrong and Eisenhower's right, then I haven't hurt my country any. But if Eisenhower and the internationalists are wrong and I am right, then we will have destroyed our most important possession...
...enemy seemed plainly to be hurt. For the first time in months, he sent his MIG-15s across the Yalu in large numbers to challenge the U.N.'s strengthened and revitalized air forces. But the Red jets accomplished nothing. In six consecutive days of aerial fighting, U.S. Sabres shot down 19 MIGs, and Sea Furies from a British carrier destroyed a 20th. During this period, the U.N. lost eight planes (four to Communist ground fire, four from other causes, but none in air combat with the MIGs...
Forgiveness. No man knew better than he that there was no appeal from the cold dictates of expediency, but the knowledge was salt in his wounds. He issued a bitter public reply and locked himself in his room. The party had not meant to hurt him, but having done so, it could not rest without obtaining his forgiveness. He must, it urged, come forth and be saluted. In a sense it was a terrible request; the party now had nothing to offer but mocking sound, but it asked that he return thanks and praise before the world. He agreed...