Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move by Reagan into New Hampshire would cut deeply into Nixon's conservative following, but if write-in campaigns for Illinois Senator Charles Percy and New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller were to materialize, Romney's power among moderates might be similarly eroded. Meanwhile, it seems safe to predict that lakeside holidays with old friends, football weekends, foliage tours and church suppers in New Hampshire will be attractive to several out-of-state Republicans...
Military lawyers often blame the special conditions of the Viet Nam war for their clients' acts. "You can have an area that's been safe for six months one day; the next day it's full of V.C.," argued the defense attorney for one of the Marines accused of shooting the two Vietnamese civilians. "I think it becomes a little easier to see how the accused could impulsively fire his rifle...
...swinging doo-wap-dee-doo backgrounds in a recording studio. When she first appeared for an audition in pigtails, dungarees and sneakers, Bacharach was immediately impressed: "She has a tremendous strong side and a delicacy when singing softly-like miniature ships in bottles." Musically, she was "no play-safe girl. What emotion I could get away with!" And what complexity, compared with the usual run of pop songs. In Bacharach's Anyone Who Had a Heart, for example, she slides from a 5/4 rhythm to 4/4 to 7/8 and then, instead of the standard four-bar ending, finishes with...
...animal. The slightest change in the jungle's normal sounds would send him scurrying from his shelter into the brush, and he and his companions worked out a code of tongue clicks to warn each other of approaching danger. As Itō soon found, no place was really safe. The Chamorros, always armed and forever prowling through the jungles in search of stragglers, discovered his hiding place three times. They killed one of his mates in 1948 and nicked Itō himself with a bullet in 1957. Finally, seven years ago, a Chamorro band caught his last companion climbing...
...Greece's governing colonels, the Kiev Ballet, the Budapest Symphony and the Moscow Symphony have all canceled scheduled performances. An English chamber-music ensemble has sent its regrets; the Los Angeles Symphony and the Philadelphia Woodwind Ensemble have joined the boycott. Athenians are faced with a summer of safe plays and sedate music by Italian chamber-music groups who are already in town and seem content to stay for a while...