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Word: safe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Held scoreless for the first three periods and for ten minutes into the final quarter, the Crimson attack finally produced a goal when Grey Hodnett scored at 10:02 to tie the game at 1 to 1. Then Shad Tubman scored twice more, and the team was home safe with a 3-1 victory...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Soccer Team Rallies for 3-1 Win, First Over Big Green in Seven Years | 10/22/1955 | See Source »

Such a program, along the lines of the highly successful crop insurance scheme, would not only fill the gap left by private companies but would also be a safe financial risk for the government. For a federal corporation could absorb the losses from local disasters by spreading its coverage over a wide area and could wait for many years for losses to be paid back in premiums. The federal government, moreover, has the experienced personnel to administer such a program, as indicated by the efficiency of the Armed Forces and crop insurance plans. Flood insurance is no final answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Came the Deluge | 10/18/1955 | See Source »

...chatted with her. Wayne pilots his old tub by night and fog, through storm and boiler stress, gun fight and slugfest, not omitting to make Mao's navy look like a fleet of Sunday oarsmen. But what matters most is that the end frame finds the hero safe in port (Lauren Bacall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 17, 1955 | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

Martyrs are rarely popular. Their persecutors, haunted by persistent ghosts, find them stronger in death than in life. Their fellow believers, faced by heroic example, find them reproaching a safe and compromising existence. By the 18th century, the whole business of martyrdom was widely considered to be fanatical and rather ill-mannered. A gibbous Gibbon age that saw the fall of the Roman Empire as caused by Christianity was apt to feel that the early Christian martyrs were really the spiritual aggressors who provoked legitimate rulers. In other words, those martyrs asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Made Martyr | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

Take. In Stevensville, Ont., police searched for the safecrackers who got away with 5? after they blasted a Canadian National Railway safe with such force that they blew the estimated $36 it contained all over the station floor, caused $2,000 damage to the office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 10, 1955 | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

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