Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Wallace . . . crystal-gazing crackpot. ... A harmless kind...
...radioactive strawboard come from? Dr. Robley D. Evans of M.I.T. offered additional clues. It was made, he said, of straw cut in Illinois on Aug. 6, just 21 days after the explosion of the first atomic bomb in New Mexico. Straw cut before the explosion proved entirely harmless. This coincidence suggested, thought Dr. Evans, that radioactive residues, carried into the upper atmosphere in New Mexico, had fallen with the rain on Illinois. The only other apparent possibility was that the Wabash River, whose water was used in the strawboard factory, carried radioactive silt...
...Poor puppet-king Marshall Field rightly belongs in the 'harmless' ward, too . . trailing his dirty sheet behind...
...actual people who wander along the roads will be harmless-defeated and broken men, dazed women, children who have already forgotten the Nazi salute. But the Poles and Czechs who expel them will be thinking of the past, and of the future. The German minorities in eastern Europe were not harmless, either as guests or, later, as masters...
Peru's first Japanese immigrants were harmless enough. But about the time of World War I, a disturbing pattern began to show. New-style Japanese arrivals were well-educated, well-financed. Directed from Japan, they bought control of cotton plantations, worked their way into department stores and industrial enterprises...