Word: safe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when limited to the generally false sounding lines that Miller provides, Whedon deserves much credit for making Chris extremely natural and likeable, mostly devoid of Miller's pomposity. But Whedon is not quite deft enough to give the role its proper proportions. He too often is content with a safe reading of his difficult lines, seldom rising very much above his "nice guy" interpretation...
...SEATO. The Times reported, that, "Speaking without a text he was cool, clear and confident, and he had many things to say which his audience wanted to hear. They were delighted, for instance, with a suggestion that Chiang Kai-shek and his immediate adherents should be retired to some safe place to live their lives out in peace ... They applauded him when he said the visit had strengthened his view the People's government of China should be admitted to the United Nations...
...Rhine, and it was asking much to ask a handful of men to devise a formula that would make the Germans strong enough to worry the Russians, yet keep them restrained enough to comfort the French. A blend of such opposites could not be attained through some safe, ingenious blend of legalisms and restrictions. For the Western allies, and for the French in particular, one of the men best qualified to discuss Europe's military needs had this advice on the London Conference's eve. "If you are going to have . . . every baby-carriage factory inspected...
...British businessman, for example, has never been completely comfortable with the idea of giving up the "protection" of a controlled currency. Lancashire mill owners shrink at the thought of cheap Japanese cloth on British counters: British automakers shudder at the prospect of all those gleaming U.S. monsters invading their safe home market. Said one business man: "Things are going along fine right now, and as long as there is all this uncertainty, why rush into changed situations...
Another problem rests not with Britons, but the U.S. Butler has insisted that the U.S. must lower its tariff barriers before convertibility can be made safe for Britain. If trade were freed and the pound made fully convertible, officials estimate that British buyers would snap up nearly $1 billion more of U.S. goods. The British economy could not stand the strain unless, in return, exports to the U.S. and Canada expanded by a comparable amount...