Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their respects. Nehru had the air of a man in undisputed command of the Asian-African Conference of 29 countries, and with his plans all laid. Red China's Chou En-lai was to be introduced to international society under his chaperonage, and shown to be a harmless fellow. Controversy was to be avoided, debate held to a minimum, only agreement sought. And what could they agree on? Why, the denunciation of that old villain "colonialism," thus improving Communist China's character by blackening the West's. From such a conference, Nehru would emerge as the spokesman...
...White House social secretary, denounced egg rolling as "an orgy of wasted eggs," announced that President Truman would not revive it. But two years ago, egg rolling made a triumphant reappearance at the White House at the suggestion of Mamie Eisenhower, who thought it was a pleasant and harmless old custom. The ground rules of egg rolling are simple enough, but few people know them and fewer observe them. The egg rollers should pair off and one bowls an egg down a grassy slope. The other tries by rolling his down to touch the first. This almost never
Eyewitnesses described him an sandy haired, 5 ft., 8 in. tall, of medium build, and good-looking. He was neatly dressed and slightly drunk, but, as Mrs. Schumacher later said, "very harmless...
...best suited to description, and it became cluttered when he tried to think. Set down as it is in short jerky chapters, The Mint has no final impact. Above all, it comes too late. A generation of men who know KP chores, the squeeze of discipline and the harmless obscenity of barracks lingo are not apt to be impressed by these documentary notes. To their wives, the book will seem like a more literary version of some of the hurt letters their men wrote during the first weeks of basic...
...should like publicly to correct the malicious gossip that the censers are attempting one of the following: 1) to drive the restless from wholesome entertainment on a day of boredom in order to encourage desperate amusements; 2) to entice disbelievers into the moviehouses on weekdays by banning harmless moral productions on Sundays; 3) to promote a Christian revival by a mild martyrdom of Christian art . . .; or 4) to annoy moviegoers by being arbitrary and inconsistent...