Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...robbery. Lodged in a children's home, he made his first break at seven. He escaped a Borstal institution for delinquents in his teens, and during World War II learned the art of camouflage as an army deserter. His first headline break came after his conviction for the safe job (Scotland Yard has yet to trace $90,000 worth of stolen jewelry). After Alfie slipped through locked doors and over a 20-ft. wall at Nottingham Prison, he became known as "Houdini" Hinds, spent eight happy months on the loose in Europe and Ireland, where...
...dive toward the ground. According to competent eyewitnesses, this is what American's 707 did. The stall, if it was a stall, might have been caused by retracting the flaps, which give the wing extra lift, before the plane had reached flying speed. To be on the safe side, new regulations were issued telling pilots not to start raising their flaps until they have at least 400 ft. of altitude, and not to retract them completely during a climbing turn...
...Heist, 56. The 707s have previously flown millions of miles without a commercial-passenger fatality in the U.S. What had happened? The steering mechanism may have jammed when Pilot Heist started to turn the plane, or the jet may have been climbing too steeply to make a safe turn. Said Halaby: "It appears to have been some kind of mechanical failure in some part of the control system." Pilots theorized that the strict antinoise laws that force them to ascend rapidly after take-off and make perilous low-level maneuvers over heavily populated areas might have caused the crash...
...into obscurity and ambiguity, into the talented but precious minutiae of Wallace Stevens and William Empson, whose poems often suggest esthetic scrimshaw, a cathedral carved in a cherry pit. Poetry became a world unto itself, a self-sealing vacuum in which poets engaged in a conspiracy of mutual approval, safe from the embarrassing questions of the bewildered public, safe from what Poet Stefan George called "the indignity of being understood...
...dinnerware, the spoon is most to be trusted; it is the bar glass that is furthest from grace. In swab tests conducted in nearly 1,000 restaurants, investigators found high bacteria counts on bar glasses "almost commonplace." A count of 100 bacteria per utensil is thought to be a safe level; bar glasses regularly approached counts of 3,000. And spoons were almost uniformly clean...