Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promising new treatment that permits heroin addicts to kick the habit was reported last week by two New York City physicians. It involves switching from heroin, which can cost the addict $25 or more a day-and is almost certain to involve him in crime -to methadone, a relatively harmless drug that costs 10? for a daily dose. Methadone's only significant side effect is constipation...
Satisfied that a plastic called polymethylmethacrylate would be harmless and would form a good, strong tooth, he made molds of extracted teeth on the spot and filled the molds with plastic. After baking for about 15 minutes in a 500° oven, a tooth was rockhard, ready to be sandblasted smooth, sterilized and put into the gaping socket in the patient's mouth. There Dr. Hodosh fastened it in place-sometimes by a pin through adjacent bone, sometimes by a bridge attachment to neighboring teeth...
Haven of Discontent. The Berkeley campus, a cultural haven in a neighborhood of cheap housing and depressed industry, has some 3,000 hangers-on. They consist mainly of would-be artists, rootless university dropouts, left-winging political activists, and quite harmless little old ladies who delight in attending every concert, rally and public lecture on the campus...
...critics of our policy in Viet Nam cried murder and mercilessness when they learned about our use of harmless gas on the Viet Cong. What is their opinion of the atrocities and abominations committed by the Viet Cong-or are they unavailable for any comment...
...carry living spores to the astronauts' clothing and crevices of the space vehicle. But the panel's report insists that even a spacecraft returning from the moon must be kept strictly out of contact with earthly life until its possibly deadly hitchhikers have been found and rendered harmless...