Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old Indian girl named Nancy Prasad was grabbed last week from her sister's arms at Sydney airport, bundled into a car and driven away. It was no ordinary kidnaping, for within 15 minutes the sister, Shasti Powditch, got word that Nancy was safe and would be returned as soon as the plane she was to board had taken...
...into the charismatic personality the Socialists need. Moreover, despite support from students and intellectuals, his party has done little to exploit the latent "time for a change" philosophy that should militate in its favor after 16 years out of power. The party slogan, "Sicker ist sicker" (roughly, "Play it safe") is designed to reassure voters that, despite their Marxist origins, the Socialists are now a respectable, middle-class party -but somehow the words seem more appropriate for, say, the Christian Democrats...
West Virginia's handsome 41-year-old executive mansion in Charleston, once thought to be a safe place in which to brood about the ills of Appalachia, was suddenly declared a disaster area. A crew of workmen sprucing up the house lifted some floorboards, discovered that termites had chomped into the wooden beams and joists, and now the building is tilting and the stairways are slanting. Eaten out of house and home, Democratic Governor Hulett C. Smith, 46, evacuated his wife and five children to his own place in Beckley, 52 miles away, there to await the restoration...
...score points, you've got to get the conversation around to something you've read, and prove you're up on the subject." No one scores points by babbling about a novel that everyone else has forgotten for two years. For that matter, it is safe to skip all Major Novelists, since everyone else is presumed to have read them anyway. This narrows the field considerably, since all novelists published in the U.S. since World War II have been Major. The dinner companion who admits reading the soft-center bon-bon writers-Taylor Caldwell, Michener, Helen Maclnnes...
When pain becomes so severe that doctors call it "intractable," they mean that it cannot be controlled by any safe and simple dosage of drugs. Even the most severe pain can usually be alleviated by cutting the appropriate nerve fibers in the spinal cord, but this in itself is considered major surgery, and too drastic an operation for some patients. The cord-cutting procedure has an added disadvantage: when the patient recovers, he will have suffered permanent loss of feeling in the affected part of his body. Now an imaginative University of Chicago neurosurgeon has devised a way to achieve...