Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chair. He ordered a slice of cold watermelon and stared at it with a kind of torpid cunning. He made it last a long time. He built a juicy suspension bridge by excavating delicately at the center of the slice, then wrecked it slowly, sadly, and with infinite care. He counted the black seeds on his plate before he dragged himself back to the unthinkable horrors of his desk, his telephone and his electric...
...Washington, members of the National Institute of Diaper Services crowded into the Hotel Statler to witness a demonstration of the Darrah-fold, the newest method of solving the oldest problem of infant care. Their conclusion: the new technique, which applies five thicknesses of cloth where they are most needed, might revolutionize diaper-folding...
...Dutch, a break seemed certain. But his successor was another moderate, Amir Sjarifoedden, who has long worked with the Dutch. When he thought he was dying in a Japanese prison camp during the war, Sjarifoedden left a message for his old friend Van Mook, asking him to take care of his wife & children. After the Dutch attack this week, Sjarifoedden was less sure of his friends. "I accuse the Dutch," he said over the radio, "of trying to recolonialize...
Because the bones in Dr. Colbert's quarry are softer than the Chinle (sandy clay) formation that surrounds them, they must be taken up with great care. No attempt is being made to recover individual bones at Ghost Ranch: the entire bonanza is being hewn out in big blocks of rock (one to eight tons each), and shipped to Manhattan. There, in the next few months, experts will remove the matrix of rock around the fossils, and carefully polish and reassemble the skeletons...
...areas have been checked and surveyed till one wonders why they are allowed to mate, since their children may through some idealogical mutation prove subversive. And since the State, Army, and other security-involved departments are screened, then verified by the FBI, the main direct threats are already taken care...