Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COURSE, a man with a title can be controversial, and even Harvard's ultra-safe policy can backfire. Back in 1833, for example, the Harvard Corporation felt compelled to grant a degree to President Andrew Jackson when Jackson made a trip to Boston. The members of the Corporation disagreed with Jackson's politics, but felt it had to honor him as it had honored Monroe when he visited Boston. John Quincy Adams, a Harvard overseer, did not take part in the confirmation vote, and he later wrote in his diary that it was a disgrace to confer the University...
District of Columbia (3): A Negro vote of 63% and phalanxes of Federal employees make this Humphrey's lone safe harbor...
...race has barely begun, and 1968 has proved repeatedly?and jarringly?that it is not a good year for predictions. Only 100 of Nixon's votes are "safe," most of them coming from Western and Midwestern states where he is all but unassailable. And though Humphrey's only truly secure territory is the District of Columbia (3 votes), his candidacy is not altogether bankrupt...
...like a scene from last year's off-Broadway prison expose, Fortune and Men's Eyes, it is a depressing catalogue of homosexual assaults in the city's prisons and the sheriff's vans. Virtually no young man of slight build who enters prison is safe from attack, the investigators found. Most are overwhelmed and raped by gangs of tougher convicts within a day or two of their arrival. Their bodies defiled, their manhood degraded and their will broken, the victims are sent back to society "ashamed, confused and filled with hatred." The system "imposes...
...meaning that it loses half its radioactivity in that interval), the seeds should soon have become harmless. Trouble is, the radon turns, by nuclear alchemy, into lead-210, the radioactive isotope of that normally dull metal. The lead-210 adheres to the gold. Even so, the intact seeds are safe because the lead's rays, unlike the radon's, remain trapped inside. But in melting for salvage, the lead is released. It takes 22 years to lose half of its activity and its potential for damage...