Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fritz Kuhn, porky U.S. Nazi of the '303, deported last year to Germany, was freed from his German prison as a harmless character in his native land. Porky no longer, he headed for Munich and "a new start"-as a chemist, said he, "if they'll let me." Swore Kuhn: "I'll never go back to politics again...
...denatured mixture would be harmless militarily. It would not explode, but it would be active enough to yield floods of atomic power, and to produce the valuable radioactive substances for which the world's scientists have been so eagerly seeking...
This cryptic statement was the heart & soul of the State Department's Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy (see INTERNATIONAL). Upon the "denaturing" depended the effectiveness of the Plan, which proposed to distribute the "harmless" materials freely...
Walter Huston is always a likable and skillful actor, and Apple of His Eye is a harmless enough little play-as rural and homey, at its best, as an old, dented tin dipper. But its shy and anxious courtship makes a long and languid evening. Farmer Stover shows twice the indecision of Hamlet without any of the excitement. The apple of his eye is a decent, agreeable girl but singularly unobservant. And the worried relatives, gabby neighbors and drawling farm help that punctuate-and protract-the evening are all stock-comedy figures...
...here . . . they do not suppress demonstrations with harmless tear gas; shooting does the trick. Many a man remains lying on the streets, but not even as a joke does one read any reference to these events. . . . Newspapers are forbidden to report the truth...