Word: safe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty-eight U.S. observers and 236 natives of local islands had been evacuated to what had been considered a completely safe refuge, but the unpredicted "fall-out" showered them with radioactive particles. Their exposure to radiation was ten times greater than scientists deem safe, but the AEC was reassuring. "There were no burns," said a commission announcement. "All are reported well. After completion of the atomic tests, they will be returned to their homes...
Soberer heads pointed out that by-elections in safe seats are not perfect indicators. Their counsel: wait at least until 1955, when the question of Sir Winston Churchill's retirement will surely have been settled, a successor will have taken over, and the Conservative government will have a four-year record of accomplishment to campaign...
...Chance. Day after day, at the Cardinals' spring training camp in St. Petersburg, Fla., 54-year-old Gussie Busch still gets into uniform, still stumbles happily through "pepper" drills in deep left center, where he is reasonably safe from line drives. The only man who wants him out of the Cards' camp is Colorado's senior Senator Edwin C. Johnson. Something of a baseball man himself (he is president of the Western League), Johnson wants Congress to legislate all brewers and distillers out of the game. "Baseball to August A. Busch," says he, "is a coldblooded, beer...
LONDON'S Royal Academy, like most academies, tends toward the safe, the sure and the mediocre. Yet it boasts one member of genius in brash, bush-bearded old Augustus John. Last week the academy opened a dazzling retrospective of John's lifework, including some 230 portraits. The display amply documented the fact that John, at 76, still upholds a vigorous and perceptive tradition of portraiture...
...Your Information. In Casino, Australia, after trying in vain to dynamite an office safe in the Northern Cooperative Meatworks, the thieves gave up, left behind a note for the management: "DANGER, unexploded charge in bottom keyhole...