Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stump, Douglas-Home seemed relaxed and slip-proof. To win election to Parliament from the safe Tory seat, he raced through the glens in a fast black Humber, making dozens of plain-spoken speeches on topics ranging from winter grain prices to East-West relations. Wearing a battered tweed jacket and a jauntily angled checked-cloth cap, he fielded involved local questions with a barrage of statistics that showed he had done his homework in the hillside cottage near Comrie that became the official seat of government during the campaign. When heckling stirred an uproar in the crowd...
...When the government of Bhutan wanted advice on whether or not it should remain neutral, whose evaluation could be more sage than that of the representative of the U.S.A.? Who better than the U.S. ambassador to decide if slightly rusty ammunition which had just arrived from Europe was safe...
...first time, Britain's Prime Minister attached his name and family seal to a document renouncing six ancient peerages. Thus, less than a week after taking office, the 14th Earl of Home became Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, commoner, and so qualified for election to Parliament from a safe Tory seat (Kinross and West Perthshire, Scotland's second-biggest electoral district). Said he: "I don't feel any different." But Britons, who at first were widely skeptical of Lord Home, were already beginning to feel different about Sir Alec...
...York's Governor Thomas Dewey called him "the new king of the rackets." And king or not, he made crime pay. His wealth, said Valachi, "would break the adding machine." His estranged wife said that Genovese was worth over $30 million, mostly stashed away in safe-deposit boxes...
...before his mixture of gases has actually reached the danger point. Dr. John F. Zeedick of Braddock General Hospital, near Pittsburgh, working with the Mine Safety Appliances Co., has developed a portable combustible gas indicator that can be conveniently hooked into most modern anesthesia machines. Its moving needle shows safe concentrations of gas on a green scale, cautionary readings on an orange scale. When the explosive level is reached, the needle crosses onto a red scale. Dr. Zeedick's machine can be calibrated for five different anesthesia mixtures...