Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inordinate number of men in uniform. Besides, he added, it takes time to train new soldiers, and money to equip them, and Saigon cannot invest either without seriously imperiling its economy. "We don't need a general mobilization," said Thieu. The boys on the motorbikes appeared safe...
...arrival of jumbo jets and the SST. Alarmed, the Air Transport Association in January started an urgent program joining six avionics manufacturers* in the search for a solution. Last week the ATA triumphantly anounced the payoff; the blueprint for a CAS that could make the skies as safe as a sailing pond...
...Safe & Lucky. In short, the consorcio is a kind of collective buy-now, pay-later plan by which credit-wary Brazilians can be sure of getting a car-though they can never know exactly how soon-without making huge down payments or interest charges. Actually, the technique was devised in the early 1950s by enterprising tailors who had been having trouble selling clothes. Before long, freelance car-buying consorcios sprang up, but these were often marked by fraud...
...expected to generate communal purchases of 2,500 cars a month by 1969. Skeptical at first, João Lopes Coelho, director of a dealer-run lottery operation in Rio de Janeiro, lauds the whole idea as "typical of Brazilian ingenuity and flair for gambling, something that is both safe and lucky...
...whips he conveniently left lying around the house. But it was not enough: by now, Sacher-Masoch wanted the recriminations and anguish of a divorce. After ten years of talking about it, he got it. Biographer Cleugh is noncommittal on the matter of the complaint; but it is safe to assume that Sacher-Masoch did not charge cruelty. He married again, this time to a more accommodating woman. In his later years, he suffered fits of violent madness; at 59, he died of heart failure. In a somewhat facile analysis, the biographer suggests that Sacher-Masoch's depravity...