Word: safe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found that none of them suited me. The reason is very simple: I cannot fit inside. My head touched the ceiling, and my legs would not fit under the steering wheel with enough room to operate the foot pedals. In some cases I was unable to see a safe distance through the contorted windshields. True enough, my 6 ft. 6 in. height is a contributing factor, but a comparatively short man of 6 ft. reported the same trouble. After seeing this show, Im wondering how many more years I'll have to drive my 1951 sedan...
Such science fiction is not based wholly on imagination. If Captain Dart gets to the Whirlpool Galaxy while he is still young enough to make a safe blast-down on some hospitable planet, he will thank, in part, Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity...
...boards of Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy-Industries Ltd. Nuclear-powered undersea craft will do 22 knots, carry 30,000 tons of oil, measure 540 ft. by 69 ft., to dwarf the first U.S. atom sub Nautilus. Snorkel craft will be able to stay submerged for a month straight, safe from turbulent storms. Cost: about twice as much as conventional tanker of same size...
Under the watchful eye of Soviet "Observer" Ekaterina Furtseva, the only woman member of Russia's ruling Presidium, stoop-shouldered Palmiro Togliatti played it safe, confined himself to abstruse analyses of Marxist doctrine and repeated pledges of allegiance to the Kremlin. Only a few dissident notes were heard, most of them sounded by 41-year-old Antonio Giolitti, a grandson of Giovanni Giolitti, who was five times Premier of Italy under the Savoy monarchy. Said Antonio Giolitti: "In Poland and Hun gary the party has been best defended not by those who keep silent, but by those who openly...
...they were embarrassed, or something"). His only comment on the Whitney Museum's great retrospective of his work, staged in 1950, was that the gallery always seemed crowded with pregnant women. Says he. with the faintest, iciest glimmer of a twinkle: "I guess they considered me a safe man to deal with...