Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only relatively safe spot at Con Thien is the aid station presided over by Navy Lieut. Donald Shortridge, 26, of Indianapolis. Dug deep into the muck and reinforced by heavy wooden beams and a mountain of sandbags, his spartan shelter is strictly for keeping the wounded alive until they can be evacuated to hospitals in the rear. Shortridge uses a stretcher balanced between two sawhorses as his emergency operating table; hissing Coleman lanterns furnish the light, and an armored amtrack stands outside to accommodate extra patients. Most of the wounded suffer from arm and leg injuries. "That 20-lb. flak...
Every member of the wholly informal delegation that went to Washington last Tuesday was there (on this at least, I think, it is safe to generalize) because of a sense of deep foreboding about the present drift of United States' policy in Vietnam. Such was the motive which inspired our letter of last June to President Johnson, asking if there were any way in which we could be helpful to him in resisting pressure for extension and intensification of the war. As for myself, the events and official statements of the summer have only increased the worries of last June...
...again. With one man on, one out in the seventh, the crumpled Adair pushed a grounder to the mound, leveling the screams begging for a rally. Versalles moved easily towards second to make the double play--when confidence gave way to fragility. He dropped the ball, and runners were safe all around. Yazstrzemski whirled the bats about and hit a home run, a slow elegant home run which drew us after it in an orgasm of sound and motion...
...Henry listed the drugs: one of the amphetamines, or "bennies"; phenobarbital, to reduce the nervousness caused by bennies; thyroid hormone, to increase metabolism; digitalis, the heart stimulant, for no discernible medical reason; and a thiazide diuretic to promote loss of body water. Each pill contained a safe daily dose of that particular drug, said Dr. Henry. But some of the dead women had taken several a day, and four of the thyroid or digitalis doses would be dangerous...
...within the system must adapt to them. However, in the last few years it has become apparent that the colleges are not about to make any fundamental changes to accommodate the hippies. The initiative, therefore, must come from the Harvard activists. Yup, they and they alone, can make Harvard safe for hippies...