Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needed a woman, and sure enough, some pretty little Frisco waitress sends him a post-card professing love. On his way to the village railway station to meet her, Tony is drunk with triumph and a good deal of his own vino. His truck crashes, Tony is hurt, and henceforth is confined to a wheel-chair. He entreats his dear, departed but heaven-bound Mama (who apparently materializes for Tony somewhere in the vacant last four rows of the second balcony) for guidance. Tony then sings an ode about how "Young People Dance, Old People Watch," and the chorus grab...
Last week Congressman Lane was preparing for a fight in the House Ways and Means Committee against the Organization for Trade Cooperation (he believed OTC would reduce tariffs, hurt his textile worker constituents) when he got some bad news. In Boston a federal grand jury indicted him on three counts of evading $38,542 in income taxes. In 1949, according to the indictment, Congressman Lane declared, on a joint return with his wife, an income of $14,311 when his actual income was $57,497; in 1950 he declared $20,991 when his actual income...
...Bernard Malamud's The Natural (TIME, Sept. 8, 1952), there was the mystical intimation that major-leaguers might even have souls. In Bang the Drum Slowly, Novelist Mark (The Southpaw) Harris modestly stays closer to the bag. Look, he says, they are human, and their hearts can hurt as much as a spiked foot...
...summer, and take either a $300 job or loan during the academic year. When other deserving students are forced to earn or borrow their entire upkeep, it seems the College can ill-afford such generosity. While raising the amount of work and loans required of scholarship students would undoubtedly hurt their economic and intellectual status, the harm done would hardly be comparable to the benefits given the Group V or VI student who could receive at least partial scholarship...
...businesses, the most efficient company usually makes the most money. But planemakers feel that the stress on profits in congressional investigations tends to punish the most efficient. And with all the harping on profits, they fear that the Renegotiation Board will clamp down still harder, squeeze earnings lower, and hurt the industry when the U.S. most needs to speed its technical advance...