Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate chamber had been as peaceful as a henhouse at laying time. Hardly a head was turned as New Mexico's harmless-looking Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez rose and said: "I move that the Senate proceed to consideration of S. 101." Too late, his startled colleagues realized that a fox had gotten loose in their midst-S. 101 was the Fair Employment Practice bill which Southern Senators mortally hate and fear...
...favor with King Charles IV of Spain. An accomplished duelist, harpsichordist and guitar player, as well as an unrivaled Casanova, Goya delighted the ladies and enraged the courtiers. His intuition was as astonishing as his lack of tact. "You look like the kind of man who goes about [burning] harmless prostitutes," he once remarked to an amiable old monk, who later became a prominent member of the Inquisition. His amorous ferocity was equally pronounced. "If I loved a woman, I shouldn't hesitate to use intimidation if all other methods failed," he grimly told a young lady-of-title...
...great a reduction in Japanese industry would be necessary to make Japan permanently harmless? How much industry must be left in Japan to support its 77 million people? U.S. reparations, experts last week were a long way from the answers to these related questions, partly because the Japanese were not being helpful in furnishing accurate information on which the answers could be based...
...citizens discovered last week that perhaps their most potent secret weapon of World War II was not radar, not the VT fuse, not the atom bomb-but a harmless little machine which cryptographers painstakingly constructed in a hidden room at Fort Washington...
...original lie detector measured the subject's respiration and blood pressure. These stayed at normal levels while the suspect was answering harmless preliminary questions. But when the questions struck nearer home, the emotional effort of lying made the heart pound harder, the breathing irregular. The machine marked such telltale reactions on a moving strip of paper...