Word: safe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian Smuts, the wise, venerable, oak-solid Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, was out of office. South Africa, which had been considered safe in the fold of the British Commonwealth (and which last year lent ?80 million in gold as a prop for Britain's sterling), had suddenly embarked on a perverse, isolationist, acutely race-conscious road that might lead to secession from the Commonwealth and to maltreatment and oppression of the country's 9,000,000 non-Europeans...
Thirteen states prohibit the union shop.* But the Taft-Hartley law does not bar it, if a majority of employees vote for it. Thus union leaders, in cases involving interstate commerce, have been able to use the federal labor law as a safe refuge from more stringent state laws...
Slowing Malaria. The best news concerned man's No. 1 enemy in the tropics: malaria. Every year, malaria strikes 300,000,000 people, and kills 3,000,000 of them. But with the now common household spray DDT, "it is a safe statement that at least 90% of the malaria of the world can be wiped out in the next ten years, and that's conservative," said Dr. Fred Soper of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau...
Arcaro owns a home in the suburbs. It is a nine-room stone-&-stucco house on a dead-end street in Rockville Centre, L.I. ?safe for his two kids, Carolyn, 6,?and Bobby, 4. Arcaro, who has been living soft since he quit as contract jockey for the Greentree Stable 1½ years ago, sleeps until 9 a.m. He used to get up at 6 a.m., like most jockeys. Now a free lancer, he eats a leisurely breakfast, and at 11:30 a.m. hops into his Cadillac and drives to work...
...million now to give the Air Force a flying start toward full modernization, to breathe fresh life into the emaciated aircraft industry and keep it healthy in case of need. If the international situation eased, the program could always be cut back. Congress preferred to be on the safe side...