Word: safe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lieutenant-Governor as "nau-seating" led Thornton supporters to rush to the aid of the University, while supporters of civil liberties demanded that the two-year old report, compiled by former FBI agents, be either released or destroyed. Its six copies, however, still lie locked in a safe in the Governor's office...
Some may try to excuse this glaring inconsistency by pointing out that Russian chess players hardly constitute a menace to the nation, and such specious use of the "national interest" loophole is harmless. While true, this reasoning hardly justifies the contrast, for under the Act's provisions men as safe as any pawn-pusher and many times more worthy are refused entry by the score...
...violence is rare. The year 1952 was the first without a single reported lynching. Many of the South's "better people," who for years tacitly condoned the Klan, have now abandoned it. It is socially as safe to back antimask bills as it was once to take hot broth to an ailing Mammy's cabin...
After war's end, Emanuel, still safe & sound, shaved off his beard and went back to the Corriere della Sera, later became its editor. But he went on painting-on Sundays. After he retired as editor last year, he took up art full time. Working in a small study, he put whatever impressed him on canvas-as rapidly as possible to catch his first feeling for the subject. After two hours, he would put the picture away. "In a few days," he says, "if I felt the same emotion I had while I was painting, then I would know...
...Club grossed an estimated $15 million for a net which outsiders put at $2,000,000. Last week, as the big Nevada tourist season got under way, Ray Smith predicted that 1953 would be his best year ever. From the looks of his traffic-flow charts, it seemed a safe prediction. In the first quarter of this year, attendance at Harold's was up a whopping 53% from a year...