Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officials agreed that punitive actions against the station were necessary to "restore respect for the law." Hallenstein, who said that many college station operators were "scoff-laws," stated that "WHRB and its counterparts at other universities obey the law as long as it doesn't hurt. When compliance is inconvenient, they stop...
...Maggie.' She turned to me and said, 'You talking to me?' We said, 'Sure, Maggie, we know you from the moles on your face.' Well, she didn't put up a fight or anything. She was more surprised that we recognized her. Kinda hurt...
Navy was too badly beaten to dream up excuses for the 14-6 score. "What hurt you most?" someone asked Navy Coach Eddie Erdelatz. "That's easy," said Eddie with a sad smile. "Army...
...have dug up is nursery gold. But, on the whole, they successfully recreate the nursery-rhyme universe in which the laws of logic, nature and rhyming are suspended. Cruelty can sound carelessly gay, love may be a mere whim, and justice a joke. And yet violence never seems to hurt, love in the child's world is really everywhere, and justice has its own triumphs, as when kings are reduced to thumb-size and beasts are great with wisdom. These verses have, in the words of Poet Walter de la Mare, "their own private and complete little beauty...
...journals which referred to "lynching") obscured the issues so completely that the white people of the state retreated to their old position of distrust of the North and to white supremacy. The cause of better racial relations was deeply harmed. Another instance in which the NAACP seems to have hurt itself here was by its recent protest over a decision by Federal Judge Marion Boyd involving segregated universities in Tennessee...