Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says Fields, "you bring out the guided missiles." These are antibodies -- produced by B cells upon the order of helper T cells -- that are custom-designed to home in on certain antigens, distinctively shaped proteins that characterize a particular type of virus, and destroy the enemy or render it harmless...
...harmless, humorous tone of the play drastically alters when Don announces that he won't be able to make their golf date next week; as a member of the State Department, he has been assigned to pick up Napoleon Duarte up from the airport and escort him around town. For Angie, this disclosure sparks off both empty self-pity ("my whole life revolves around these weekends") and vague, shrill accusations against the Salvadoran leader. An unlucky combination, but Don's replies are no better, consisting mainly of lines like "Women.." and "It must be the bad time of the month...
...although they were infected with the AIDS virus, their symptoms were not as severe as those of full-blown AIDS. Each patient took a capsule every four hours. For slightly more than half the group, those capsules contained AZT. For the control group, the capsules contained a placebo, a harmless, inactive substance. The tests were "double blind" to ensure that results would be interpreted objectively; neither the doctors administering the tests nor the AIDS victims knew who was getting the real drug. That information was known only to a few Burroughs Wellcome officials, who monitored the results flowing in from...
...aging bosses seated at the defense table in the packed federal courtroom in lower Manhattan look harmless enough to be spectators at a Sunday-after noon boccie game. Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno, 75, the reputed head of the Genovese crime family, sits aloof and alone, his left eye red and swollen from surgery. White-haired Anthony (Tony Ducks) Corallo, 73, the alleged Lucchese family chief, is casual in a cardigan and sport shirt. Carmine (Junior) Persico, 53, is the balding, baggy-eyed showman of the trio. Elegant in a black pinstripe suit, a crisp white shirt...
Well, yes. Revolutions do need misery to feed on. (There are exceptions. Occasionally there are revolutions of the comfortable, as in the 1960s in the U.S. and France. Such facsimiles, however, are invariably short-lived and harmless.) But these conditions, while obviously a necessary cause of revolution, are not sufficient. If they were, there would be revolution everywhere and always, since, aside from in a few countries in very modern times, poverty is the common condition of mankind...