Word: safe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there goes the other happy poet bedraggledly back to New York which struck him all of a sheepish never-sleeping heap at first but which seems to him now, after the ulcerous rigors of a lecturer's spring, a haven cozy as toast, cool as an icebox, and safe as skyscrapers...
Judges for the Princeton debates were the Hon. Raymond S. Wilkins '12, of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Francis W. Hatch '19, president of the New York advertising firm of Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborne, and Ralph Lowell '12, president of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Corporation and the Lowell Institute...
...strong support on either flank from the U.S. and Britain to help bolster his shaky position at home. Last week he brooded about reports that his government would be replaced by a "surrender" Cabinet eager for a settlement from which the French would ask and get nothing but a safe-conduct out of Indo-China. "A Kerensky government is being plotted behind my back," he told an intimate darkly, "which is prepared to reverse France's alliances." He meant the alliance with the U.S., which he considers France's most valuable asset...
...House. In Los Angeles, Winford Johnson, 39, was arrested on a complaint by the Temptation Inn owner, who had asked him to "watch the place for a while," later returned to find that Johnson had made off with $450 from the tavern safe after buying drinks all around...
...Anyway, we are clean and safe now," he added...