Word: safe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meaning, and Nichols wondered why Davy Crockett, whose story has been around a long time, should suddenly click as a meaningful figure to Americans, young and old. Crockett's is no fat and happy success story. He had a lot of fun, but he never expected to be safe. He kept moving, and he never let his hand get far from his rifle. Concluded Nichols: "Davy Crockett is the epitome of a man who can lick any problem with his wits and his own two hands." In the spring of 1955 the U.S. people were confident, but far from...
...committees, 'drest in a little brief authority,' took a certain pleasure in humiliating the candidates who presented themselves for approval." But one advantage of constituency-hunting is that the party can sometimes place its brightest lights (who may not be men with the most popular appeal) in safe constituencies, thus assuring their reelection...
While virologists were still trying to decide whether Dr. Salk's "killed" virus vaccine was safe, or how it could be made safer (see above), other experts argued that the killed-virus idea should be abandoned altogether. Leader of this school...
...live vaccine safe? Dr. Salk, for one, does not think so. Although the live-virus method has been used successfully in the long-established smallpox and yellow fever vaccines, he believes that the polio virus is too tough and tricky to permit development in safe, nonvimlent form. Dr. Sabin disagrees, thinks it can be done. Growing virus strains of all three types under hothouse conditions, he found some that, when injected into the spinal cords of chimpanzees, produced no paralysis. All they did was to stimulate the animals to produce antibodies against any future invading polio virus. And these antibodies...
...launched his unsuccessful bid to control the company, was to arrange a merger with Allied Stores Corp. It seemed like a natural: Allied had young executives and expansion plans; Ward had the cash. Avery could announce the deal and ascend gracefully into the honorary chairmanship, assured that Ward was safe from Wolfson...