Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Patrick Gordon Walker lost Leyton, not Smethwick, in a January by-election. The latter he lost in the general election in October. Both were "safe" Labor seats...
Imbert appealed to the rebels holed up in downtown Santo Domingo to surrender their weapons, guaranteed their safe-conduct "without reservations." He called for peace, unity, bound himself "to cooperate totally" with the Organization of American States, and, with the U.S., struggle to bring at least a semblance of sanity to his battered, forsaken land. He claimed he had control of all 25 Dominican provinces and 90% of the capital district. He asked all public employees to return to work, promised that his government would start paying salaries promptly...
...representative to NATO. But then Delgado made the mistake of campaigning seriously for the presidency in one of Salazar's mock elections. Defeated, Delgado was promptly fired from his job as director of civil aviation, and took refuge in the Brazilian embassy until he got a guarantee of safe conduct to leave the country...
...Fail-Safe. Movie cameras have also come in for a much-needed overhaul. In the last six years, the sale of 8-mm. movie cameras has dropped more than 60%, and the 16-mm. cameras have all but faded from the picture alto gether. One reason was that the cameras and projectors were simply too difficult to operate. As a result, the general run of home movies were bombs. Explained a Kodak survey in 1963: "Home movies create a situation in which one can fail. No man likes to appear a failure to his wife or children...
...contraceptive on the "nature knows best" reasoning, and they have failed dismally. The truth is that countless plants contain substances that are close chemical kin to the estrogen group of female hormones and, like the estrogens, will indeed prevent conception-but they are neither as good nor as safe as the artificial products now available...