Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrators shrieked their outrage, but George went on; the loud-speakers worked very well. He said he would get the federal government out of local education, and they yelled, but the crowd out back gave him thunderous approval. He said he would make the streets safe to walk down, and the students didn't like that either, but the others...
There is hardly a single big city in which the individual feels completely safe on the streets at night. The fear of violence permeates the entire nation, wafted by television and newspaper headlines into areas that only vicariously experience serious trouble. In western Nevada, Ormsby County Sheriff Robert Humphrey warns: "What I'm afraid of is that the public will demand that we take too much authority. That is the real danger. But the alternative might be some kind of vigilantes...
Zond 5's successful loop around the moon and its safe recovery in the Indian Ocean provided fair warning last week that Russia is well and truly back in the race for the moon. Many scientists believe that the flight was merely a prelude to the circling of the moon by a Soviet cosmonaut, a mission that could be carried out within the next few months. But U.S. space officials are still hopeful that American astronauts can make a lunar landing before the Russians set foot on the moon...
...runaway poodle (The Killing), a cremated coffin (Ocean's 11), or a kid with a photographic memory (The League of Gentlemen). At their best, caper movies can be wry little existential parables; at their worst, they are merely two hours of closeups on nervous thieves and unyielding safe dials...
Some of my best friends are the sons of liberal white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, though they haven't learned their lessons as well as we have. If Dean Watson is looking for radicals, he should look to them, for they still think it is safe to speak one's conscience in this country. Watson must only hope they will finally learn the true lesson of the American Experience under the Nixon-Humphrey-Wallace administration. Nicholas C. Arguimbau...