Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fear of going too far too fast and perhaps allowing the reforms to get out of hand. Though the government has formally abolished censorship, for example, it asks editors not to write about some 12,000 items on a list of "state secrets." The list includes such seemingly harmless subjects as the price of veal and the cost of spinning yarn; to many editors, it is censorship in another form...
...most of his career, Ho Chi Minh has been playing a kind of political character part: power disguised as innocence. A harmless-looking old party with a ridiculous beard and a peasant's jacket, the leader of North Viet Nam conjures up for many people the image of "a Franciscan Gandhi" or "Chaplin at his most affecting." So says Le Monde Journalist Jean Lacouture, who adds: "This is a man so fragile that he seems to survive only by the sheer force of his imagination...
This novel seems to have been sprayed out of a can. As with most of the new and convenient instant satires, Melinda is compounded of 2% active ingredient and 98% harmless propellant. Even so, it should not be inhaled over a prolonged period...
Disregarding the relatively harmless bullet in the neck, the surgeons turned their attention to uncovering the damage to Kennedy's brain. The head was shaved. Overlying skin and muscle were then cut and laid back. An air-powered drill bored through the skull, and a segment of bone was removed. Then, while Reid helped control bleeding, Cuneo probed the wound. Softened and bruised brain tissue, bone fragments and clotted blood were removed by suction...
...does not enumerate many more vices than are already known nor does it propose any startling reforms. "The thesis of this book is that advertising should be cleaned up from the inside," says a Funk & Wagnalls editor, "lest it be regulated from the outside. What could be more harmless?" Says Author Baker, who was in the advertising business for 30 years before he retired five years ago: "I, too, think advertising is good for business and business is good for the country...