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Word: harmlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DECIDE to kill her for the money, and the rest of the film is a series of asinine murder plots that they botch through sheer stupidity. You've seen it all before. The poisonous snake that turns out to be harmless. The failure to drown her in a birdbath. The leaky casket, cast out to sea, that deposits her unharmed on a beach, still in a fog. Drawn as close as possible to the rich-broad stereotype, she's as deficient in human skills as they are: not only can't she cook, but she can't refuse...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: Squandering A Fortune | 7/22/1975 | See Source »

...preliminaries are finally over. Ever since he upset George Foreman in Zaïre last October to regain the world heavyweight championship, Muhammad Ali has been beefing up his bank account at the expense of harmless opponents. First he played with Chuck Wepner in Cleveland for $1.5 million, then humiliated Ron Lyle in Las Vegas for $1 million. Last week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he pocketed $2.5 million with an easy 15-round decision over European Heavyweight Champ Joe Bugner. In fact, his toughest opponents in Kuala Lumpur were the sopping 118° under the ring lights and the near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Next Stop, Manila | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

Weirdos. Another great thing about the Square is that it attracts unusual people. At any given time, in fact, you can walk through the Square and see someone who is extremely bizarre, intelligent, harmless, and possessed of a burning desire to talk to you about their theory of existence or some such thing. Just look around and you'll find them--perhaps in the course of an active summer you'll get to meet all the great ones, Clampman I and Clampman II, the Sheik, the Vanishing Desperado, the Sun Myung Moon people, Ms. Armageddon, and all the rest...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: MISCELLANY | 7/8/1975 | See Source »

...person up against his will and keeping him indefinitely in simple custodial confinement," wrote Justice Potter Stewart. The Constitution, he ruled, prohibits forced incarceration of untreated patients "if they are dangerous to no one and can live safely in freedom." In short, a state may not "fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Opening the Asylums | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

...declared his 18,500-acre farm a sovereign state, which he called the Province of Hutt River (pop. 20). Clad in white tie and tails and sporting an old British naval sword, he dubbed himself Prince Leonard and elevated his family and friends to the peerage. Deeming him a harmless eccentric, the federal government pretended not to notice the prince and his province. But Casley, 47, the son of a Kalgoorlie railroad fireman, has proved difficult to ignore. United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim recently received a letter from Prince Leonard-on Hutt River letterhead-applying for acceptance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Prince of Hutt River | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

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