Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...witch. Having learned black magic from a sorcerer in Jamaica, she comes back to Britain laden with abracadebris (dead spiders, pickled fingers, esoteric herbs) and secretly begins to bewitch her husband. Her motives are wifely in the best bourgeois tradition: she only wants to keep her husband safe from other witches, and to make sure he does well in his job. He does very well indeed. Before the first reel runs out, he seems certain to become chairman of the sociology department. At that point, unfortunately for him, the scientific snob discovers what his wife has been...
...Hatless in the chilly rain, Macmillan now roamed Stockton's streets, delightedly shaking hands and exchanging banter with tradespeople and old acquaintances. In his wake was the personable local Tory candidate, Barrister Gerald Coles, 28; he did not hope to win, for Stockton had been a safe Labor seat since 1945. What Coles, and Macmillan, hoped to achieve was at least a decisive second place over the Liberal Party candidate, for defeat by this puny group (which has not been in power since Lloyd George) would be a deep humiliation...
Harvard was hitless up to the third inning, when third baseman Mike Drummey sent one screaming into deep left-center field for a stand-up triple. Following him, Terry Bartolet slapped an easy grounder to Tufts shortstop Guidi, but Guidi booted it. Drummey scored and Bartolet, safe on first, made it 2 to 0 on Dave Morse's double to center before the inning was over. The Harvard rally came with...
Dusty Halt. A long column of army trucks drove 27 miles north of Saigon, straight into an arc of Red-controlled territory that provides a safe Communist 50-mile "supply corridor from the Cambodian frontier to the province of Phuoc Thanh. As the first light of dawn slanted down through the thick forest in the district of Ben Cat, the truck column came to a dusty halt, 600 troops of the Vietnamese 5th Division poured over the tail gates and fanned out across the harvested rice fields and rubber plantations to flush out Communists. Typically, the Viet Cong faded away...
...inspectors police purity of food products; the rest work on drugs and cosmetics. Its main power over drugs comes from a 1938 law (passed after an early version of sulfanilamide in a poisonous solvent killed 107 people) that authorizes FDA to require satisfactory prelicensing proof that a drug is safe...