Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From two to 250 germ colonies may switch sides during a kiss, but 95% are harmless...
Steel Helmets. The occasion seemed harmless: since SS troops are not eligible for veterans' pensions, two former generals of SS combat divisions had formed an SS old soldiers society; last week they held a rally in Verden's soccer stadium. From all over Germany, even from South America, came more than 5,000 delegates. Welcomed by the Bur germeister, the SSmen made merry in Verden's beer gardens...
...Utah, Sioux City, Iowa, and Houston (TIME, July 14). In all, 54,772 children aged one to eleven got inoculations while polio epidemics were raging. Half the children received shots of gamma globulin, the small fraction of human blood which contains protective antibodies. The other half received useless (but harmless) gelatin. Nobody, not even the doctors, knew at the time which child got which shot...
...According to the U.S. report, the Red-starred Russian plane flew "toward the center of the U.N. [naval] formation in a hostile manner," eventually opening fire on the U.S. fighters. The U.S.S.R. claimed an "outrageous violation" of international law, insisted that the Soviet bomber was unarmed and flying a harmless practice mission out of Port Arthur...
Local entomologists were not much help. They could only identify the insects as relatively harmless field crickets (Grylus assimilis), not half as ravenous as the grasshoppers that frequently devastate vast acres of crops. There are a few insecticides that might do some good, said the hesitant bug men. But chemists, they admitted, have concentrated on more vicious pests and have not yet bothered to develop cricket killers...