Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble, confessed he had no stomach for pioneering among "people who start trouble without even seeing me and my wife. I would have held out except for the grandchildren. If they lived here and went to school, the kids would pick on them, maybe rough them up. It could hurt them, maybe ruin their lives." Improvement Association President Thomas J. Collins had a more pointed answer: "It doesn't matter what Father Coogan says now. The Rouses will sell. We've made the deposit. We're willing to accept the loss and that...
...technician to shut the reactor off instantly, but his order was misunderstood; the technician used control devices that were too slow. Before they could take effect the core had partially melted. Instruments warned of radiation danger, the alarm was given, and the building was cleared. No one was hurt, but the reactor is still shut down...
...prosaic, prim and dull ... Too many of us have lost Christ's call to heroism and have grown comfortable and commonplace, small in our minds and imaginations. The Christian church has become too much an ambulance, dragging along behind, picking up the wounded, making bandages, and soothing hurt feelings, when the church should be out on the front line, getting hit in the face, but leading others and conquering the enemy...
...Northern New Jersey as a body wired the officers of the Whig-Cliosophic Society asking them to reconsider their decision to invite Hiss, a convicted perjurer, to speak at a meeting on "The Meaning of Geneva." The alumni claim that this action has seriously discredited Princeton and will hurt the annual giving campaign among Princeton alumni...
Thieves for Witnesses. Being a stranger to orderly legal procedure did not hurt Mieke Bouman: so was the court. Two prosecution witnesses testified in court that they had given evidence under duress. One witness was a convicted thief...