Word: safe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Without indulging in parlor psychology, it was obvious that for many policemen (and this is something that's got somehow to be precluded in the future) this was a safe way to work out their own frustrated resentment of students and intellectuals...
...incoming Prime Minister Harold Wilson wanted Gordon Walker to be Foreign Secretary in his new government, and under the British system a Cabinet member must have a seat in Parliament. Casting about for a safe constituency, Labor officials settled on Leyton, a drab East London working-class neighborhood represented in the House of Commons for the past 30 years by a 73-year-old Labor M.P. named Reginald Sorensen. Abruptly, Sorensen was invited to accept a life peerage and vacate the constituency, and a by-election was scheduled...
...first, Leyton seemed not only safe for Labor but also safe from the race issue, since only 3% of its population is nonwhite. But in politics no issue stays dormant. Gordon Walker found things complicated by the fact that last November-after reading a Gallup poll showing 68% of all Britons to be in favor of some curbs on immigration-Wilson's Labor government voted to renew the same immigration law it had fought so vigorously in 1961. Kicking off the Tories' campaign against Gordon Walker in Leyton, former Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod chortled, "I welcome, though...
...wise and loyal piano player and a patriotic, emotional bartender. Both films include a hated Nazi (or Vichy) officer, an admired underground leader and his beautiful wife who need Bogart's help, a vicious cat-and-mouse police interrogation scene, and a phone call at gunpoint to assure a safe get-away for the anti-Nazi forces...
Keith Sedlacek kept Harvard's lead safe, scoring eight points in the last three minutes of play. He was high scorer of the game with 28 points and continued his assault on most of Harvard's season scoring records...