Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Homogenized, pasteurized, refrigerated, U.S. milk is an eminently safe beverage. But U.S. laboratories are hard at work trying to make it even safer. In a cold war world, scientists must somehow learn how to extract the radioactive strontium 90 that is showered down on pasture grass from atmospheric nuclear tests. At present, U.S. cows do not take in enough strontium to make their milk dangerous, but testing may well continue; the problem may well get worse...
...least two sets of excellent fingerprints were found around the safe and have been sent to Washington to be checked in the FBI's exhaustive files...
...their crime-scene research, Cambridge police collected particles of dust from the room and especially the broken concrete wall of the safe. It is believed that some of the dust may have collected in the trousers cuffs or other articles of clothing he thieves were wearing...
...manufacturer's most jealously guarded possession is often not the combination to the safe but the name of his product. On the one hand, he desperately wants the public to get in the habit of asking for it by name; on the other, he shudders at the thought of that name becoming the name for anybody else's similar product. Kodak, B.V.D., and Coca-Cola have for generations bared their teeth in courtrooms to protect their names from slipping into the generic limbo where mimeograph and nylon now languish in lower-case ignominy...
...budget : "The safe and sound policy would be for the Government to abandon its career of fiscal brinkmanship, and in times like these control expenditures within limits that allow for significant annual reductions in the national debt. Then, when sudden economic declines happen, the loss in revenues will not cause severe deficits...