Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, when the book was dropped, educational values were partially forgotten. While direct protest did not cause the board's action publishers learned that bowdlerized editions still hurt too many feelings. The crux of the matter is that, while education should try to give some emotional security, its primary object is development of the free mind. Since Huckleberry Finn serves that object well, ignorance is a high price for protecting feelings which, if aided by mature understanding, would not be hurt anyway...
They seek to stop radioactive fallout, which some scientists say has already reached the point where it endangers present and future generations. Western spokesmen have argued that to suspend tests without otherwise disarming would hurt the West's nuclear power while preserving the Russians' advantage in manpower...
...parochial school by a Sister Milburga. "God love her, she's gone," says Judge Davies. "I remember her very well. Instead of holding your palm up, you'd hold it down and you'd get it across the knuckles. I want you to know that hurt. It was something less than pleasant." Davies' grandfather, chief of police in East Grand Forks, across the North Dakota line from Crookston, often let Ronald tag along into court. Says Judge Davies: "I was absolutely fascinated watching that municipal judge and listening to those lawyers. From then on, that...
...curious Kashmiri newsmen Nehru frankly explained his long avoidance of Kashmir: he had for a long time been "pained and hurt" by the plight of his onetime friend Sheik Abdullah who, with Nehru's reluctant consent, has now spent four years in prison for having flirted with the idea of Kashmiri independence rather than union with India. When it came to explaining why Nehru had ended his boycot-since Sheik Abdullah still sits in jail-Nehru was somewhat less frank. Ostensibly, he had come to look at the receding floodwaters that recently inundated 700 Kashmiri villages. In fact...
...State Department also marshals impressive statistics to prove that U.S. overseas airlines have not been badly hurt despite increased competition. In 1955, the last year for which figures are available, U.S. airlines got $225 million from overseas operations v. only $119 million for all foreign operations on U.S. routes. State Department economists also note that this year Pan American will carry 20,000 more passengers on transatlantic runs than in 1956, an increase greater than the total transatlantic business of either British Overseas Airways or Air France. Furthermore, while economics technically dictates all route awards, international politics always plays...