Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sitting on high-tension wires is obviously for the birds. When a bird flutters down from the air and perches on a hot wire, the deadly current rushes about inside the body but, since it is not grounded, can go no farther and does no harm. Squirrels run greater electrical risks, but it is their own fault: they have a habit of nuzzling each other. A lone squirrel can scoot safely back and forth across a wire, but when a squirrel on a charged line touches noses with a friend on a grounded tower, or swishes its tail onto another...
Most of the particles, says Whipple, are probably too small to be dangerous, but they make a loud rat-a-tat-tat sound. To the space traveler, the chief harm that they can do is psychological. So Whipple suggests that the nerves of spacemen be shielded from this hazard by surrounding their capsule by a thin metal shell that wi!! intercept the speeding dust particles but will not transmit to the capsule the unnerving sounds that they make...
...automatically dials out the sound in defense of sanity. The story involves boyish Buddy, a rising young executive (Frank Aletter), entrapped in the fuddled care of two maiden aunts (Doro Merande and Enid Markey) who are so naive and troublesome that they should be put out of harm's way before the series gets much older. Script credit goes to one George Tibbies, who may add a new word to show-business lingo. Entertainments of this sort are obviously not written; they are tibbled...
High Time. An amiable spoof of the old-fashioned campus musicals brings Old Groaner Bing Crosby back to college to fill the gap in his career as a tycoon. Along the way, Bing also gets a refresher course in romance. No harm done...
...Saltonstall," the mayor said, "votes with Barry Goldwater more than he does for the interests of us Northerners. He does no harm in the Senate, and it might be all right to leave him there if the country weren't in such urgent need of action...