Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During World War I, German Zeppelins bombed London from the safe altitude of 20,000 ft., far above the ceilings of primitive fighter planes. But by 1916, air defense techniques had improved so much that five Zeppelins were shot down over Britain. Also during World War I, the "blimp," as such, was born. The term came from a British designation of "Limps" for nonvertebrate dirigibles; there were two classes, "A-Limps" and "B-Limps." A British dirigible, the R-34, made the first transatlantic flight in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh's, and between the two World Wars...
...last was a 1953 disaster called Two's Company (with Bette Davis) that sent him into retirement at the age of 35. He went to Bucks County and began the slow process of sifting new plays, giving them a hearing, keeping his operation alive with interlardings of safe old hits. Last summer, when Ellis produced Neil Simon's farce Come Blow Your Horn, he decided he was ready to return to Broadway. The play, which opened in February, got mixed reviews, but has since become a solid box office success; it has paid...
...talk with a girl there. When she ignores them, they torment a small Negro boy until she protests. Then, abruptly, they drop the game; it is time for an ominous appointment. Curtain. Weidman delivers his grim moment expertly, but the reader's admiration is mixed. There is something safe and synthetic about the story. One feels that if Hemingway had done it, risking more, it would have been better, or a good deal worse-and that either change would be welcome...
Thus last week did the case of the Soble brothers near its climax. Members of a well-to-do Lithuanian family, they had, according to Jack, been recruited for espionage work around 1940 by Soviet Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria. He had promised them and 13 relatives safe passage to the U.S. in return for their services. Jack and his wife Myra were arrested in 1957; he admitted his guilt, and in return for turning state's evidence was sentenced to only seven years. Robert, a psychiatrist, was arrested last November and has since kept his silence...
...Tune. Linner dispatched his aide, Robert K. A. Gardiner, a Ghanaian by nationality, on a special mission to Stanleyville, where Antoine Gizenga holds sway over Eastern province and claims to be the only true heir of the late Patrice Lumumba. Gardiner persuaded Gizenga that it was safe to send a delegation to Leopoldville for the reopening of Parliament. In Katanga, the copper-rich secessionist province that stubbornly refused to share its wealth with the rest of the Congo, Linner's other U.N. emissary, Francis Nwokedi of Nigeria, was hard at work on the Deputies of stubborn "President" Moise Tshombe...