Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alben gets his way," said a fellow Kentuckian, "but he does it so you never feel it hurt." In 1949, while Barkley was presiding over the Senate, he ruled against his Southern friends in an attempt to cut off a Southern filibuster. But he lost not a friend thereby. He set the tone by reaching for one of his ageless stories. "I feel," he said, "somewhat like the man who was being ridden out of town on a rail. Someone asked him how he liked it, and he said that if it were not for the honor of the thing...
...Dear Alben" telegram. But five months later, when Barkley was getting ready to nominate Roosevelt for a fourth term at the Democratic Convention, Barkley got the news that Roosevelt had passed him over as a candidate for Vice President in favor of Harry Truman. This was a personal hurt, but not an affront to the party, so Barkley pulled himself together and made the hall echo with his eulogy of the Chief...
...tanker Apsheron neared her home port of Odessa this week, leaving a frothing wake of hard words and hurt feelings...
...afterburner) from the Air Force and lash it to the deck of the carrier Coral Sea. Under the watchful eyes of flight physicians,volunteers walked into its sound field. Few emerged without respect for what sound waves can do. When they get strong enough, the sound waves not only hurt the ears but make other parts of the body vibrate. A man standing in a sound field of 120 decibels (common near the tail pipe of a jet) feels the waves in surprising ways. If he holds out his hand, his fingers get painfully hot whenever they touch one another...
...plump young matron holding a little girl in her lap. "My first reaction," she said, "was that I didn't want my child to be a guinea pig. But then I got to thinking." Other mothers nodded, recognizing the pattern of their own afterthoughts. "It can't hurt them," the plump one went on, "so we haven't lost a thing in coming. We've got a 50-50 chance with each child of getting gamma globulin, and if we get it we know it might be some help or protection against polio. And whether...