Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spain's Francisco Franco is the only other dictator with legal life tenure as chief of state. Ghana's strongman President, Kwame Nkrumah, was voted permanently into office in September, but His High Dedication modestly vetoed the gesture, preferring to rely on elections-a safe enough gesture since the country is officially a one-party state...
...found the right girl," said Rick, and Kristin, daughter of former football great Tommy Harmon, looked right as rain. Whether she will join Rick in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet remained to be seen, but with those clannish Nelsons gaining such a pretty new face, it seemed a safe...
...human voice in lament-and others have used its reiterated play-song melodies. But even among jazzmen, the only composer who has consistently written good jazz for orchestral players without merely repeating George Gershwin is Duke Ellington, and Ellington's "classical jazz" swings only because it is safe, sensual music. "We're going to do this thing," he has said in a little lecture on swinging, "until your pulse and my pulse are the same." His genius is mainly in his knowledge of the dynamic range of orchestral instruments...
...Florence, and when Nancy kindly points out the Duomo, they inquire: "Until what time do the stores remain open here?" In their "plastic garments," they occur in Ireland, where they say, "Pourdon me," and ask nuns to close a train window. Nor is England's most hallowed ground safe from the profane American. "Although they descend from people who could not succeed in Europe and furiously shook its dust from their feet, they have a sentimental feeling for ancestors. They even look for them in England, nurturing a strange belief that in some country churchyard Hoggefeller and Potemkine...
Army's Jim Sarn is a standout in both the shot and the discus, and Harvard entries will have to go all out to beat him. Art Croasdale in the shot and John Bakkinsen in the idiscus appear to have their events safe for the Cadets. Clark Ballard in the hammer throw and John Ahearn in the javelin are favored over strong Crimson opponents...