Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silence in the cities was almost eerie. For the first time in more than two months, slum streets-at least for the time being-were safe and peaceful. Governor George Romney ended the state of emergency in Detroit, Newark nursed its still gaping wounds, and other cities across the nation reviewed the reasons and remedies for riots...
...Northern soldiers set one foot in side Biafran soil, not a single inch of Nigerian territory will be safe from our attack." That was the vow of Biafra Secessionist Leader Odumegwu Ojukwu just before Nigeria's federal troops, led by Major General Yakubu Gowon, invaded Ojukwu's Eastern Region six weeks ago. Ojukwu was slow to make good his threat. But last week, having fought his attackers to a standstill, he was ready to take the offensive. In a swift twelve-hour drive, he captured the federal government's oil-rich Midwestern State...
...Empress' tiara, fortunately, was safe in the bank vault when the jewel thieves struck. But there had been an uneasy moment last year when Sonny's wife No. 3, Eleanor Searle Whitney, told a columnist that the tiara was a gift Sonny had bought for her. Marylou would have none of it. Said she: "Sonny bought it as an investment. And I must say, the pleasure of wearing it is delicious...
...rings. Some 4,000 San Francisco meters were jammed by rings in the same period, and in New York, the traffic department is collecting about 20,000 rings a month. Elmer Ploof, in charge of parking-meter collections for Detroit, has stored in the city treasurer's safe two overflowing bushel baskets of rings taken from meters-out of sight perhaps, but not out of mind...
Perhaps still more potent, and still relatively safe, is the anticoagulant drug warfarin. Less than 1/500th of an ounce is enough to make an adult rat die of internal bleeding. Ironically, the brown rats' white kin in laboratories helped University of Wisconsin researchers develop warfarin anticoagulants as lifesavers for men and killers for rats...