Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drive chairman Phillip D. Levin '53 beseeched contributors not to break their appointments: "With almost 50 gorgeous nurses in attendance, we ask everyone to give. It doesn't hurt...
...efficiently hacked to pieces by the lout, who rather enjoys the flower's screams. In Thus I Refute Beelzy, a father refuses to believe his six-year-old son's story that he has a secret friend named Mr. Beelzy, who won't let anybody hurt him ("He said he'd come like a lion, with wings on, and eat them up"). Father goes upstairs to give the lad a spanking. "It was on the second-floor landing," the tale concludes, "that they found the shoe, with the man's foot still in it, like...
...clamor, the noise > that hurt Russia most came from Andrei Vishinsky himself. "His laugh," wrote the New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick, "may have done more to undermine Russian peace propaganda than a whole battery of counterpropaganda . . . For nothing he said or will say to the assembled nations is so revealing and reverberating as that laugh. It goes echoing through the corridors of the U.N. . . . like the snicker of an evil spirit. Perhaps it will echo down the corridors of time. Lesser things than a laugh at the hopes and fears of humanity have brought down...
They hoped it would be pushed to the point where it would really hurt consumer-spending in Britain, stop the rise of prices & wages. Now that the Old Lady has her hand back on the purse strings, her admirers thought it would be difficult to shake her grip loose...
Novelist John O'Hara is an expert at pinning down two kinds of people: those who get hurt easily and those who have a genius for hurting them. His victims and victimizers usually meet in scenes charged with emotional or physical violence, frequently both, and almost always the heel has a field day at the expense of someone better but weaker (Butterfield 8, Appointment in Samarra, scores of tough, tense short stories). Usually O'Hara makes it plain that heels annoy him almost as strongly as he is drawn to them. In his last novel, the bestselling...