Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...withstanding the heaviest aerial onslaught in history. Faced with an unshaken enemy, the Pentagon no longer contends that it can bomb Hanoi to the negotiating table, insisting instead that the North is "paving" dearly for its continued support of the southern insurgency. Even this revised assessment is not as safe as it seems. Though somewhat patchy, the evidence from Hanoi indicates that U.S. bombing is making the government and social structure of North Vietnam stronger than ever...
Certainly automobile manufacturers, especially in their advertising directed to young consumers, have unabashedly associated their products with various forms of violent or aggressive behavior, and continue to do so. The contrast between the formal "safe driving" advise that the manufacturers make available to the public and the message of some of their advertising suggests that this is indeed conscious and deliberate company policy. Thus, a driving pamphlet issued by General Motors declares...
Pulling in to defend the cities, the allies have been forced to cede large areas of the countryside to the Communists. Except for the largest population centers, for example, the rich Delta is now almost entirely in Viet Cong hands. There is not a Delta road safe to drive on, by day or night. Massive quantities of supplies are moving through the Delta for the enemy buildup around Saigon, and U.S. reconnaissance planes now sight piles of enemy artillery shells flagrantly stacked out in the open. But people and goods cannot move in the Delta; fish rot where they have...
...instead of the 4,600 miles that Boeing is contractually obliged to deliver. Allowing Boeing more time to revamp the plane to meet its performance pledge, said Major General Jewell C. Maxwell, SST Development Director of the Federal Aviation Administration, "will hasten the day when we will have a safe, successful and profitable SST in commercial service...
...activity may provide the power holder in Thailand's military regime, General Praphas Charusathien, with an excuse for postponing elections due this fall. Ordering Thai newspapers to print the grisliest photographs taken during the Tet offensive in Viet Nam, Praphas asked: "Is it not better for us to safe guard a normal situation than for these pictures to become facts in our own country...