Word: hazardously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three times as many of each; the average state hospital is 75% understaffed in clinical psychologists and social workers. At the annual governors' conference in Chicago last week, a new fact emerged: the shortage is so bad that raids between states for psychiatric workers have become a common hazard...
...Wells), the University of California's famed H-expert, Edward Teller, warned that science has not yet found sure ways to prevent peaceful reactors from blowing up. "[Despite] all the inherent safeguards that can be put into a reactor," said Teller, ". . . it is important to emphasize . . . the public hazard that might follow a reactor accident . . . [Because of leaking radiation] it may be necessary to evacuate a large city, to abandon a watershed and . . . make the reactor site itself a forbidden area for years to come...
...Venice's School of San Rocco. One of his biggest problems was to keep both his camera and the 166-in. -by-214 ½-inch framed painting, which had been on the wall for almost 400 years, dead still for a 45-minute time exposure. After overcoming the hazards of Venice's crowded streets and ringing church bells, both resulting in imperceptible vibrations of the building's walls, Kessel discovered another hazard that blurred his picture. The heat from the floodlights made warm air behind the painting push the canvas almost microscopically while his shutter was open...
Attention-Getter. In Taunton, England, the town council told Druggist W. H. Adcock that he must remove the elaborate display he had erected on the second floor as a perfume advertisement because it was so beautiful that it distracted motorists and constituted a driving hazard...
...Mystery. Actress Maureen Stapleton also stumbled on the hazard of a bad play presented over NBC's Philco Playhouse (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.). Incident in July is the poor second best of Novelist-Playwright Calder Willingham, who adapted his own novel, End as a Man, a couple of seasons ago into an unexpected Broadway hit. Incident is about a married woman, incapable of having children, who pours her maternal affection on a 19-year-old boy, causes a painful scandal, finally realizes that she ought to adopt a child. The writing was aimless, the plot pointless, and Actress...