Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minor Statesman Connally, and those in the Administration who had advised him into timidity, were wrong. They had anticipated heavy opposition from onetime isolationists, realizing no more than Walter Winchell how dead the old-fashioned isolationism is. So Tom Connally had polished and burnished his Resolution down to harmless generalities. But in five days of dull mumbling and set-piece speeches, only one bigtime isolationist-Montana's irreconcilable Burt Wheeler-rose in routine wrath. In fact, Tom Connally was pushed and prodded, badgered and heckled by a bloc of tough-minded internationalists ("The Willful Fourteen") who were...
...Sultan know it was my birthday?" Harmless humor, said Witness Smith, and cracked: "She'd be very difficult to dispose of in the ordinary army barracks...
Many of us thought the ignominy of saluting a Lieut. (j.g.) would be almost unbearable, but once you become used to it, it seems quite natural, and your pride suffers relatively little. Even the restrictions as to study hours are rendered harmless by the amount of material given out to be studied every...
First symptoms of the disease are likely to be headaches, dizziness, lightheadedness, excessive blushing. Dr. Page advises people with these symptoms to see a doctor and keep cool. Blushing is "a good rather than a bad sign" because it indicates a relatively harmless type of hypertension. Extreme danger signals are wavy vision with blind spots and red or smoky urine, indicating hemorrhages in eyes or kidneys...
...detector to spot unseen enemy soldiers approaching along jungle trails; a light (probably using infrared rays) that would enable soldiers to see objects at night but be invisible to the enemy; an improved means of signaling the identity of ground troops to friendly planes and vice versa; a simple, harmless process for darkening metals, especially aluminum, so that they will not reflect light; a method of waterproofing vehicles so that engines will not stall when they ford streams; an inexpensive, durable metal for soldiers' dishes; a means of absorbing or eliminating poisonous carbon monoxide (apparently a substantial problem...