Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...However, it would be exceedingly unfortunate if those "special obligations" were used by powerful segments of the public to deprive professors of their rights as citizens to speak forthrightly on all issues of public concern. As you correctly point out, everyone is cheated when the academic scholar takes a "safe" position in the face of strong pressures to conform...
...Tonton Macoute hoodlums. There was sporadic fighting between Duvalier's men and the emboldened opposition, and dark rumors of many deaths. Diplomatically, the arguments turned on the safety of 103 Haitians who had taken asylum at Latin American embassies in the capital, and had not been permitted safe conduct out of the country. In the neighboring Dominican Republic, President Juan Bosch threatened military action unless the refugees in the Dominican embassy were allowed to leave Haiti. Dominican and Haitian troops faced each other across the dirt road that cuts through the green hills along the border. Under such pressure...
...back to the very center of French political life. Eased out of office by President Charles de Gaulle in 1962 and replaced by Georges Pompidou, Debré had seemed permanently relegated to the shadows last November when he ran as a candidate for the National Assembly in a supposedly safe constituency and, despite a Gaullist landslide, was soundly beaten by a local garage owner. But Debré was determined to try again, even though he had to travel 6,000 miles to French-owned Réunion Island, a tiny volcanic rock in the Indian Ocean, where a by-election...
...clear. But he had measured well. Jamming his foot on the accelerator, Meixner ducked his head and whizzed into West Berlin. By the time he got there, he was going so fast that he left a 96-ft. skid mark when he jammed on the brakes. Safe with his passengers, Meixner explained his escape plan to startled West Berlin police: "I figured it would take the Vopos three seconds to draw their weapons once they realized what I was doing. But I thought I could make it in those three seconds. Besides, we had 30 bricks behind Mrs. Thurau...
...filthy play," said Chicago Tribune Editor William D. Maxwell, who spends part of his time back home scrubbing books "by dirty-fingered authors" from the Trib's weekly bestseller list. Washington Star Vice President Benjamin McKelway confessed that he rejected the play without having seen it. Safe & Solid. Otherwise, the awards were what many a commentator termed "safe and solid"-and about as controversial as a seed catalogue. Posthumous prizes went to Physician-Poet William Carlos Williams for Pictures from Brueghel and to Novelist William Faulkner for The Reivers (his second Pulitzer). Other second-time winners: Composer Samuel Barber...