Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squad. The fur suit, famed for its expert Charlestoning, disappeared from a student's room, where its three guardians had left it while eating dinner. Appealing for aid from anyone who knows its whereabouts, they said that though the suit looked and felt like a tiger, its bite was harmless...
...seven years, the 1,200 patient citizens of the farming village of Ifs in Northwest France had put up with Headmaster Jacques Mériel of the town's new elementary school. After all, they told each other, he was a harmless, peaceful sort of man. They attributed his strange habits to the fact that he had once been run down by a Nazi truck. But last week the 46-year-old headmaster was the center of a sudden explosion of wrath. Reason: his incorrigible habit of falling asleep in class...
...jailed for eight months. Suspected of participating in another plot the next year, he successfully defied police by demanding that a general of equal rank be sent to arrest him. Later, kept under surveillance until Perón in a moment of clouded foresight, decided he was harmless...
Indonesia's handsome President Soekarno professes to have no fear of Communists. This feeling stems from the premature 1948 Communist rebellion, which Soekarno's troops handily broke. Two years ago, thinking it a harmless sop to the political left, Soekarno picked an acknowledged Marxist named Iwa Kusuma-sumantri as his Defense Minister...
With conservatism in such permanent authority, politics tends to consist largely of ideology and favormongering. "Only the slightest ideological nuances divide the harmless Radicals . . . from the Communists" when their parliamentary stentors shout the glorious insurrectionary principles of the Revolution, says Luethy. France, in short, has attained "the seventh day of creation" and wants only to keep what it has. Stability, says Luethy, is the Frenchman's great desire-stability that preserves all the innumerable positions of petty local privilege first won as a rule from the all-compassing state, stability that permits the anarchic individualism by which "everyone...