Word: hurts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scores a dramatic upset and runs ahead of Eisenhower, the Ike boom-especially the argument that Ike is a Winner and Taft isn't-will be dealt a critical blow. If he runs close behind Ike, he can claim a moral victory. Taft would be seriously hurt if he ran third, behind Eisenhower and Harold Stassen, who also entered the race last week. The Ohio Senator was willing to gamble on that possibility. "Win, lose or draw," said he, "I ... feel I should permit the preference vote to be taken...
...them drew a pistol and quietly invited the butler to instruct the doorman downstairs to admit their ringleader. Then they waited politely for their victim-Fashion Designer Mollie Parnis, 46-to finish a telephone call before they went into her bedroom. "You don't want to get hurt," said one soothingly. "Where are the jewels...
...Done a Good Job." At the station house, after they had told all, one of the trio apologized to Designer Parnis. (Said she: "Poor boys.") Paladino earnestly told newsmen: "Put in the papers that we didn't hurt anybody on this job. Put in there that we had a gun and a knife but we didn't use it, and tell how the gun wasn't loaded." When Commissioner Monaghan announced promotions for seven detectives, Guidice jumped dramatically to his feet, offered his hand to one of them and said: "We done a job and we failed...
...opponents hope that Democratic Governor Adlai Stevenson has been hurt politically by the disclosure of corruption in his administration; the Chicago Tribune promptly coined a new word, "Adlai-burger." And the sizzling scandal inevitably has produced almost as much corn as horse meat. Sample: the story about the counterman who asked a hamburger customer: "How will you have it-to win, place or show...
...Allez-y." The words were like a spark in dry tinder. Within a week, nationalist resentment had flashed into open rebellion; 130 Arabs were wounded in a clash with French police at Beja; 15 were hurt in another riot at Ferryville. The French acted promptly, arrested five nationalist leaders plus a handful of Communists, and sent Bourguiba himself into "exile" in a small village in the north...