Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walked with brisk military step or the traditional wild-blue-yonder look. First by ones and twos, then at the rate of ten a day, they shuffled with short, gingerly steps to the base hospital. Heads sunk to their chests, their breathing fast and shallow, they complained that it hurt if they breathed deeply. Any jarring motion, even from a few brisk steps, was painful. Some kept their arms folded to serve as a sort of splint for the chest...
...terms of actual oil sales, Canada's hurt is less in the present than in the future. Canadian oil exports to the Pacific Coast are running around 82,000 bbl. a day. At most, they are likely to go down no more than 5%. But Canadian oil economists projected a major increase in shipments, anticipated that in five or six years oil-rich Alberta, for example, would be pumping 400,000 bbl. of oil daily into the U.S. market. Any move to set limits on Canadian oil imports was a signal to Canada not to count too much...
...industrial and political upheaval, by flood and famine, has turned its attention inward. Throughout the Asian rimland there are signs-some faint, some clearly visible-that peace and order have begun to creep into the ascendant. Politically, only one nation-Indonesia -still thrashes in chaos. Economically, inflation has hurt eastern Asia less than some others; several nations, led by Japan, are surging toward prosperity...
...disgust after a 13-month run on NBC. Reason: advertising agencies had failed to turn up a national sponsor for the show, which has been sponsored regionally. Cole charged that "many, not all" of the agencies had deliberately dragged their feet in the belief that a Negro "performer would hurt any national client's sales in the South. Said he: "This is nonsense. As an entertainer, I know I'm salable to all kinds of people, not just one race." Cole's decision was triggered when NBC proposed replacing him with a quiz show to bolster...
...natural exuberance." One day an actor decided to get even. At a point in the script where he was supposed to slap her lightly, "he slapped me so hard it almost knocked me down." But it was no use. "I cried real tears of pain and looked so genuinely hurt and startled that the audience stood and cheered." Says Director Josef von Baky: "It was all there at 17. The tremendous intensity and ambition, the radiance and the look of sentimental innocence, the specific Schell personality." At 20, Maria was hired by the State Theater of Bern as its leading...