Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...permanent improvements in the buildings and stores of Harlem. And fully 70 per cent of the mortgage loans go to homeowners and business outside of Harlem. Of the mortgages made within the Harlem community, half are made on churches, not on homes or stores. Since traditionally churches are safe long-term credit risks, it is questionable whether the bank really needs the accounts which Hudgins solicits in his sermons to back the church mortgages. It appears that he is simply trying to pick up accounts by using the churches as a medium of free advertising for the bank...
...also universally known that in the changing political climate of the South, virtually no Congressman is safe from challenge in his home district. Thus last week Judge Smith, bent and slightly hard of hearing at 83, was forced to campaign for the Democratic nomination in the July 12 primary. Always a candidate but rarely a combatant, he has not had to hustle for primary votes since 1938, when F.D.R. set out to "purge" the balky conservative. Smith won that contest...
...married an impecunious cousin, Margaret Montgomerie. Father was furious, but Boswell insisted that he really loved the girl. And he really did. As the volume ends, the reader realizes that Boswell was less a fool than he liked to seem, though certainly more a fool than it is safe to be. Pottle leaves-him, as Wyndham Lewis put it, "teetering on the verge of sanity." And he leaves the reader fully prepared for the literary peaks and the emotional chasms that punctuate the landscape of Boswell's later life...
...indicates that the voters may want a different man for the task. In Iowa, the Des Moines Register reported that while the President led Michigan's Republican Governor George Romney 45% to 31% in a January poll, he trailed him 46% to 35% in May-and it is safe to assume that Viet Nam was a major factor in the turnabout...
...University Symposium, "Safe fred, Robert G. Gardner, Daniel Seltzer, and Michael Steinberg. Emerson...