Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some may try to excuse this glaring inconsistency by pointing out that Russian chess players hardly constitute a menace to the nation, and such specious use of the "national interest" loophole is harmless. While true, this reasoning hardly justifies the contrast, for under the Act's provisions men as safe as any pawn-pusher and many times more worthy are refused entry by the score...
Each new gesture got wide attention the world over, but the fact is that Russia achieved its effect by the number of its moves, not by the substance of them. There were concessions on the Berlin blockade, not an end to it; a harmless drunk was released, not an important kidnap victim like Berlin's brave Dr. Linse. Peace might come in Korea, and this would indeed be substantial news, but it had not come yet, and the possibilities of delay and dissension at Panmunjom were as great as before...
...evil they are seeking to uproot. When faced with this threat our strongest weapon is found among those academic principles which we feel constrained to defend--respect for the opinions of others. I am convinced that today's Communist hunters are not inherently vicious men seeking only to persecute harmless professors. I feel that, for the most part, our problem today is the result of the misdirection of the efforts of sincere men in the face of what most conscientious citizens regard as an unprincipled and powerful enemy--world Communism. In my view, the path of our action is clear...
Each year, the Presidents of the Ivy League colleges take down their 30-30's, adjust their sights, and get set to go Big Game hunting. last February, they bagged a rabbit--a relatively harmless rabbit called Spring football...
...Italian village of Collodi (pop. 1,400), where Carlo Lorenzini ("Collodi") wrote the story of Pinocchio in 1880, has been collecting pennies from schoolchildren the world over to build a monument to its famous little wooden-headed citizen. Each contributor has received a certificate entitling him to tell one harmless lie a week without damage to his nose. Last week such a license was on its way to Walt Disney, who filmed the story of the puppet in 1939 and who had sent a contribution...