Word: safe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until last week did the Communists start releasing the wounded in sizable planeloads: by week's end 422 of a promised 858 were safe in Hanoi. Then came Genevieve de Galard. "I am quite well," she told the crowd at the airfield, "but I have nothing to say, and I have made up my mind about that." Then, still smiling, she was driven off into Hanoi for a medical check, a good meal and a quiet night's sleep...
Syrupy Wine. Such sites are safe from most archeologists, who are generally more learned than athletic, but Philippe Diolé, director of Undersea Archeological Research for the French National Museums, is not merely learned. He is a "skin-diver," and loves nothing better than swimming under water with mask and air cylinder. Often the bottom of the sea is a desert with nothing to show that man has ever sailed over it, but sometimes an encrusted object looks somehow suspicious to Diolé's well-educated eye. Diolé investigates. He finds a chunk of Carrara marble...
...Plantation near Honolulu, tip off workmen when the cane jams up. At Chicago's Argonne National Laboratory, scientists manipulate radioactive material with intricate "slave hands" by means of three-dimensional camera that gives the necessary depth perception for delicate handling. The military has drafted television to get safe closeups of automatic shell loading, seek out enemy targets for guided missiles, and, with cameras mounted in planes and jeeps, survey the front ines for commanders in rear areas...
Kelley pushed the first pitch high and deep to Bill Chauncey in left. Chauncey's throw pulled MacDonald off the plate and Umpire Bartin Boyle ruled Easton safe MacDonald protested in vain...
...stood at his post to flag some other children back. As the children obeyed, the car hit Jimmy and broke both his legs. "Despite his pain," says his citation, "when a traffic officer reached him, James's first thought was to ask if the [other] children were safe...