Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even an ostensibly harmless action like the choice of Beirut, Lebanon, for next year's UNESCO conference, was an occasion of friction. Polish Delegate Jan Drohojowski, who had walked in & out of the conference in a constant huff, saw a last-minute chance for what he considered a crack at the U.S. He said he hoped that next year the delegates, "especially when they visit the neighboring Holy Land, will obey the Ten Commandments and not bow down to the Golden Calf...
...Harmless Gentleman. The jury found against him. Said Mr. Justice Swift: "I have been over 40 years engaged in the administration of the law [but] I have never heard such dreadful, horrible, blasphemous and abominable stuff...
...carrying an indigo snake, the other with a 6-ft. corn snake wrapped around her neck, appeared at the White House and asked to see the President. Gate guards held them at bay. The idea, said the girls, was to show the public that most snakes are not only harmless, but downright useful in killing rats and mice. ¶ Fed up with "high prices and no homes," 18 men, women & children sailed from Los Angeles in a 73-ft. tug to establish a colony on Chirote, a jungle isle 20 miles off the coast of Panama. ¶ In Manhattan...
Drawing a line between harmless pranks and sheer "vandalism," Dean Bender announced that students reported by Yale authorities for actions that damage property or endanger life and limb face possible dismissal upon their return to Cambridge...
...accuse the Hitler system," cried Sachsenhausen's Dr. Heinz Baumkoetter. (He used to pour burning phosphorus on his patients, so that afterwards he could test the efficacy of burn salves.) "I accuse the system which made me-a harmless man by nature-into a criminal against humanity." Only dandified, cadaverous Willy Shubert, who had once earned a medal and a holiday in Italy for helping to kill 18,000 Russians in three months, refused to grovel. "I killed men on orders," he boasted, "and I killed men without orders." Sachsenhausen's commander in chief, pig-eyed, bulletheaded Anton...