Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they think and feel. Rather, in writing term papers, students often try to write what they think will please the reader, asking themselves: What does he want us to feel? The immediate personal response is never cultivated, never expressed. It gets lost in the desire to please, to be "safe...
...effects of leaving papers until the end of the term. First, writing only one paper for a course gives the student no chance to improve in his ability to argue a point, to develop his responses, to write lucidly. Also the student feels a great pressure to write a safe, conservative paper when it is the only one in the course. He tends to be thorough and cautious, not daring to take a chance on a dubious theory or a fresh approach. Too much of the grade depends on the term paper for the student to feel free...
...spate of calls from women complaining that their hair curlers were radioactive, from men suspicious of the olives in their martinis (Chicago Psychiatrist Milton A. Dushkin named the ailment "nucleomitophobia"-fear of the atom). A motorcade of 30 food faddists set out from New York to find new, safe homes in the northern California town of Chico-blandly ignoring the fact that a Titan missile pad, which would presumably be a prime Soviet target, was less than seven miles from their sanctuary...
...camps are mainly intended as relocation centers for the 10,000 East Germans who are under arrest be cause they cannot be trusted to remain in the workers' paradise. The idea is to move them to a safe distance from the sealed frontier in Berlin or other areas bordering the West. Some were actually caught in the act of fleeing; others are merely suspected of planning to flee, or "spreading unrest." For all, the penalty is swift deportation to the new camps in the interior, where "work rehabilitation" means sweating in a quarry or a mine from...
...fight for Katanga's independence. After the announcement, the central government in Léopoldville named Egide Bocheley as Katanga's "High Commissioner" to replace Tshombe. Bocheley, a follower of far-left Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga, flew off for Elisabethville. When his plane landed, it was not safe for him to leave the airport, and he spent the night sitting up in a chair. Elisabethville was under siege...