Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither alternative can be at all attractive to the Chancellor; choosing the first will call down upon him the wrath of the industrialists who backed him as a safe bet to preserve their property; and it will moreover so burden the state's budget that it may force a cut in other expenditures dear to a demagogue's heart. The second choice will involve an admission, tacit or articulate, that he cannot accomplish what he set out to do, not even within a reasonable distance of success. I have no doubt that this bit of brazenness on Hitler's part...
...outstanding men. Donald Chalmers, brother of the back-stroker, will be entered, and may win the quarter-mile event. The Crimson relay, if it uses its full strength, swimming Wightman. Parker, Wallace, and Scott, would seem certain of taking the race. Ulen, however, if he is winning by a safe margin, will probably swim slower...
...through the fighting, leader of the Socialist forces was dumpy Dr. Julius Deutsch, Minister of War in Austria's first Republican Cabinet and ancient adversary of her Catholic Chancellor, the late great Mgr. Ignaz Seipel. The New York Times's sympathetic G. E. R. Gedye found him safe at Bratislava, just over the Czechoslovak border, guarded by a cordon of Czech Socialists from attempted assassination. A ricocheted bullet in his left eye left Dr. Deutsch so blind that he could only see the outline of objects. He was sick, exhausted, but eager to talk...
...fire a cashier had two melons left over from lunch. He put them in the safe. The fire melted the iron, exploded the melons. They dissolved into a thick juice that covered what was beneath them. Last week salvagers found 36,000 Turkish pounds ($28,000) preserved in melon juice...
...likewise, but the tears will be of a better quality. Author Hutchinson has turned the difficult trick of writing a realistic modern romance, a contemporary story of strong but unmawkish sentiment, a poignantly sympathetic study of English and German victims of a war that did not make democracy safe...