Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor swimmer, Wiesner clung to the boat while his son Joshua, 10, swam for help, worried frantically after 45 minutes that the boy had drowned. Rescued by a passing boat, Wiesner had the Coast Guard dredging the bay when word came that Joshua too had been picked up, was safe at home...
...hardly qualify, heaven knows, as a Euphoria Gazette, safe and suitable for Pollyanna's night table. We have too much of the world's sadness and spite to report. But our 102 correspondents around the world are in fact on the lookout for the merry and the positive as well as the anguish and the agonizing. A fair proportion of the half a million dollars a year we spend on cables, and the $300,000 that is our reportorial telephone and telegraph bill, is spent on news that is not just crisis. Not because we are trying...
...Portugal, its like-minded ally, South Africa is putting up $5,300,000 to help construct a jet airport on the Cape Verde island of Sal as an additional refueling stop. South African Minister of Transport Ben Schoeman assured everyone that the island-hopping detour is every bit as safe as the old routes. "We are flying and will keep flying," he vowed. The airline has already launched an advertising campaign extolling the scenic charms of such offbeat places as Luanda and Las Palmas, and a Cape Town columnist eloquently extolled the uses of adversity. "Boycotts have turned us into...
...against lynchings-and it is difficult for Americans today to realize just what terror that word held for Negroes. For the 30 years ending in 1918, the N.A.A.C.P. lists 3,224 cases in which people were hanged, burned or otherwise murdered by white mobs. No Negro could feel really safe-for reasons perhaps best described in the well-authenticated report of one famed lynching: "A mob near Valdosta, Ga., frustrated at not finding the man they sought for murdering a plantation owner, lynched three innocent Negroes instead; the pregnant wife of one wailed at her husband's death...
...vain, previous Burmese governments have offered amnesties to the rebels. Ne Win went farther: he promised a safe-conduct to rebel leaders for discussions in Rangoon. Red Flag Leader Thakin Soe accepted. He was picked up by a river gunboat, taken to a government airfield and flown to Rangoon, where he promptly demanded 1) a nationwide ceasefire, 2) withdrawal of Burmese troops from vital Red Flag areas, and 3) a meeting of all political factions-legal and illegal-to form a new government. Taken aback by these demands, Ne Win denounced Thakin Soe as "insincere" and gave him seven days...