Word: hazardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dials & Smoking. Dr. Dobbins' report noted many oddities. At sea, he said, the danger that radiation from the reactor which drives the sub may damage the crew's health is negligible, so effective is its lead shielding. But in port (where pre-atomic subs represented no hazard) the danger skyrockets: part of the shielding may be removed for nucleonics technicians to work on the power plant. Another oddity: though detectable radiation gets into the air and might conceivably build up to health-hazard proportions, it does not come from the reactor. The heavy villains are the radium-painted...
Occupational Hazard. In Winnipeg, when police asked the occupation of Benjamin Monette, convicted of driving his car with faulty brakes, broken speedometer, defective lights and a clutch held together with a rubberband, he answered: "I'm a mechanic...
...Cambridge police concurred in the view that the illegal parking represents a considerable safety hazard...
Before the events of Monday morning brought the safety hazard to the attention of the city police, cars in the vicinity of Leverett House had not been issued tickets. Although the no-parking rule was in effect, the police preferred not to enforce...
...when the medical report was finally released at her third press conference of the day. To the jampack in Hagerty's office she said: "I will have no comment on its contents." Under the jackhammer questioning of men desperate to get the story straight, she did, in fact, hazard comment of harmful ineptitude ("That is a form of heart attack, as I understand it. . . . 'Cerebral' does have a connotation of something to do with the head"). Anne Wheaton's confusion was hardly less helpful than Major General Howard McC. Snyder's lofty insistence that...