Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...center can easily be made safe from light fallout: a survey has already proved that the center's water tanks-all located underground-are safe from radiation; windows in the central control board room in the yo-story RCA building are being bricked up to preserve the center's communications with its buildings. Next year the center will start on a far harder project-safeguarding underground shelters where workers and sightseers could wait out heavy fallout. Says Center President G. S. Eyssell: "We hope and pray that the thing we're preparing for will never happen...
...forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings. Fears of women, fumbles at sex. A slow, sick drift of disappointed desire that bears him insidiously back to the dear, safe days when he was a pretty little boy among pretty little girls who adored him and made no demands. But now he is no longer a little boy, and when he tries to behave like one, the games get stranger and stranger, till one day he finds himself alone in the woods with a ten-year-old girl, breathing hard and gliding close to the terrified child...
...moral arguments against such an affidavit are many, but several are worth repeating. Legally, the disclaimer provides criminal penalties for a false statement on questions of belief or opinion. Far worse, any university which administers this vaguely-worded affidavit becomes an instrument of the government, enforcing an official, safe norm of belief. Although it has been suggested that Harvard accept NDEA money and provide separate scholarship funds for those students who refuse to sign the affidavit, this suggestion begs the moral question. In an NDEA loan, the University would provide one-tenth of the money and would have to administer...
...What I am trying to say is that a deliberate policy of one-factor selection might produce in our student body not more students of first-rate intellectual power, but fewer. It might well produce, in fact, simply a high level of dull, competent, safe academic mediocrity, an army of future Ph.D.'s who would do useful work with no originality or commitment...
...toward the end of a good ball game, Harvard had it in the bag with a safe nine-point lead, and fans were getting a bit bored. Suddenly, second string Engineer quarterback John DeNoia dropped back on his own 31-yard line and let go with an unsteady heave that swooned its way into the waiting hands of left halfback Pat Clark, who ran the remainder of the 69 yards for six points. The pass concluded an 87-yard drive covered by three quick plays. Andy Larko made the conversion, and Crimson fans snapped to attention as the scoreboard registered...