Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fail-Safe, Bur dick and Wheeler...
...military finally awoke--just late enough so that Gilmor was safe and just before they made the putout on Bilodeau, who advanced to second on the play at the plate...
...ruled that Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg had been dumping wire rods in the U.S., turned the case over to the Tariff Com mission for a final ruling next month. Because the Tariff Commission can boost duties retroactively, many American importers have slashed their buying just to be on the safe side. One result: imports of some German steel products are running 75% below normal rates...
...heroine's trouble is her belief that "with the slightest effort we could escape to some safe place where everything would be ordered and good and indestructible." Her first three marriages were a kind of play. But slowly she finds resignation and returns to Jake with no illusions: "I was no longer frightened of him. I no longer needed him. I accepted him at last, because he was inevitable...
Americans today seem peculiarly fascinated with stories of how they will all be eventually vaporized. Two of the top ten best-sellers deal with the theme of atomic war. But unlike Fail-safe, in which a mere two cities are destroyed, Triumph obliterates two continents. The Russians--those traditional villains--start a war, their cunning leaders having first stashed away several thousand people in bombproof shelters. These people will provide a nucleus for Soviet world domination once the bothersome populations of both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have been eliminated...