Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though. When the soldiers returned home, they wanted their jobs back, and all the pressures of a male-run society combined to create the age of domesticity and "togetherness," and a baby boom in suburbia. The few women who kept claiming a political role came to be regarded as harmless or eccentric. The formidable Margaret Chase Smith, who served 23 years in the Senate, most of them as the lone woman there, was occasionally mentioned as a possible Republican vice-presidential candidate. But it was typical of the times that when somebody asked her what she would...
...scene, and shouted their disappointment when the fire finally went out. The two freshmen were eventually disciplined by the College and stated, in a public apology: "We honestly say that the incident was meant only as a prank and sincerely felt that the incident would be passed aside as harmless...We did it for a little excitement...
...much better than 42nd Street. The music, the costumes, the story, and of course the tap-dancing is of the straight forward old-fashinoed make-them-leave-the-theatre-happy-and-humming type, it worked well enough during the Depression. And it provides a rather harmless evening of musical theatre...
...Duarte's strongest ally may be the 41,000-member armed forces that nearly killed him twelve years ago. Most of El Salvador's 14 departmental commanders are pledged to support the new government. Those known to favor D'Aubuisson are expected to be transferred to harmless administrative jobs or to embassies abroad. One reason for the armed forces' anticipated compliance is the promise of additional U.S. military aid; last week the Salvadoran army began taking delivery of $32 million worth of ammunition and field equipment...
...disposal Goliath. Over the past decade, Vulcanus I has conducted test burns in the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Vulcanus II was set to begin commercial operations in the gulf, where the ship's giant furnaces were to reduce thousands of tons of liquid poisons to harmless vapor. To broaden the burn program, the Maritime Administration backed a $55.8 million loan that enabled At-Sea Incineration Inc. to build two disposal vessels in Tacoma, Wash. Advocates call Apollo I and Apollo II "state...