Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story, yellow brick building during the day. A few nights later, three policemen jimmied the aluminum front door. A police car stopped across the street as lookout; one of the three burglars remained by the store window to watch for a flashing-headlight danger signal. At the safe, his two companions worked with a carborundum wheel, cooled it with cartons of milk. In 90 minutes the safe was cracked...
There were few failures-but one of them led to the burglars' downfall. Cruising one night in April 1960, Patrolman John D. Bates saw burglars leave a 17th Street coffee shop. When Bates chased the getaway car, a safe fell out of the trunk; the man who came back to retrieve it turned out to be a policeman. Bates told his story to Chief James E. Childers, passed on department rumors that a dozen policemen were cracking safes. He was ordered to see a psychiatrist. When the psychiatrist reported Bates was eminently sane and was probably telling the truth...
...normal temperatures, it suffers irreparable damage. At lower temperatures the brain can survive longer, so some neurosurgeons have operated while the patient's whole body was cooled. But others felt that the brain needed to be more deeply chilled than the body can be, to give a longer safe time...
These "soldier-industrialists" hold "sales conferences" and order subaltern flacks to tailor the corporate image. A photographer is told to do a general "from his good side only." From relatively safe distances, the symbolic big guns pump shells at the enemy. At the apex of this busy wedge of "middlemen," the "common laborers" at the front die in anonymous perplexity, to be replaced at once by other men whose dog tags were stamped at the same factory...
...monstrosity. Admittedly, few areas in modern economics present greater complexities than agriculture. And with respect to the mechanics of the federal price support system only the highly trained specialist can speak with any competence. In his public utterances since taking office Freeman has not confined himself to the safe technicalities, though. He has enunciated a definite notion of the "problem" and has specified a variety of general procedures for solving...