Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Novelist Shaplen's setting is authentic. His Saigon is hot, and more oppressive than the heat is the sense of deceit, mistrust and danger. Communist terrorists hurl grenades into cafés in broad daylight. Harmless-looking old shopkeepers convert their shabby little stores into arms depots for Communist agents. A Chinese gambling-house operator runs weapons to the enemy. Counterespionage is apt at any time to burgeon into counter-counterespionage. At this game Adam Patch is about as subtle as a sand-lot quarterback. A Vietnamese doctor shows up, claiming to be a deserter from the Communists, with...
...some way of brightening the dim X-ray shadows shown on fluoroscopes. If they are brightened by pouring more X rays through the patient, the effect on his health may not be good. With the Lumicon looking at the fluoroscope screen, a very faint picture, drawn by weak and harmless X rays, is made bright enough to show up clearly in a fully lighted room...
...great happiness to have been born in an old house," he wrote in 1871, when already there had been 140 years to fill it "with harmless ghosts walking in the corridors." A house had stood on the same site since the founding of Cambridge in the 1630s, but he was referring to the "Gambrel-roofed house" built in 1730, barely four years after Wadsworth House, which (if you ignore the latter's brick bustle) it exactly resembled. The house was privately owned until 1871, but its close ties to the University began with the moving in of Jonathan Hastings...
...soapsters seemed ignorant of the consequences, as the not result of their efforts was a two day suspension of operations at Newell Boathouse. Coach Love expressed his regret that such an apparently harmless trick could cause so much trouble...
...leading a popularity contest in government circles today," says the Roman Catholic monthly Catholic Men in an editorial entitled "Good Old God." Many a politico who goes in for godly utterances is "inwardly feeling that such pious expressions and, in fact, God Himself and religion in general, are perfectly harmless . . . We are in favor of expressions of trust in God and don't want to appear cynical, but could it be that an appreciable number . . . are motivated by a naive sentiment that by shouting 'Lord, Lord' often enough, and long enough, we will have fulfilled our obligations...