Word: hazardously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atom. Answering pleas by India, Yugoslavia and Russia that the U.S. stop testing nuclear weapons, U.S. Delegate (to the U.N. Disarmament Commission) James J. Wadsworth last week replied that 1) the tests "do not constitute a hazard" when properly conducted; 2) the U.S., in the interests of its own and free world security, will continue the tests until agreement is reached to limit nuclear weapons "under proper safeguards...
Luminous watch dials, he wrote, do contain radioactive material, but the quantity "is negligibly small and constitutes no hazard to the individual . . . unless one were to eat the dial." Luminous switch markers are harmless, too, but Taylor urged moderation. "One should not fill his home with such devices unless there is real need for them...
Occupational Hazard. In Victoria, B.C., Times Publisher Stuart Keate was fined $15 for speeding on the Island Highway, explained to the court: "Your honor, I was on my way to a meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Vancouver Island, where I was to speak in support of a resolution to favor retaining highway speed limits at 50 m.p.h...
...France's bloody conflict in Algeria, war correspondents are running not only the occupational hazard of shot and shell but a new kind of risk. Though 350,000 French troops are committed, and the hostilities have claimed some 50,000 deaths on both sides, France does not recognize the conflict as a war. Result: a legalistic no man's land in which reporters trying conscientiously to get the Algerian side of the story by meeting with fellagha leaders either in Paris or Algiers put themselves at the mercy of French security and treason laws...
...their independent Democratic Governor Frank Lausche. Lausche's recent endorsement of the President's farm bill veto "was quite shocking to Democrats everywhere-it was sharply in conflict with the majority." If Lausche wins his Senate race against Republican Senator George Bender this year, Butler would not hazard a guess whether Lausche "would vote with the Democratic majority or the Republican minority.'' And as for Lausche for the Democratic presidential nomination, "I haven't heard much about Lausche in the party outside of Ohio . . . There has been no organized effort under the administration of Governor...