Word: safe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That the Americans would be safe from harm was widely accepted; Amin kills his own countrymen, rarely foreigners. Still, the man's long history of abnormal behavior worried Washington. "Goddammit," said one White House adviser, "why couldn't our first crisis have been a more dignified...
...country cousins by Westminster -and fueled by the development of North Sea oil off Scotland's coast-the independence-minded Scottish National Party in the past six years has become second only to Labor as the most powerful party in Scotland. With many of Labor's traditionally safe seats in danger during the 1974 election campaigns, worried leaders came up with a limited home-rule bill, promising a regional ("devolved") assembly for Scotland if Labor was returned to power. Though the Tories, too, belatedly endorsed devolution, the Labor initiative wooed enough Scottish voters to cling to power...
...meeting with Hewitt and two other club officers Monday Epps said he would hold the ballots "for safe-keeping" and he would not interfere with the election results. The ballots have not been opened...
...lover after he was repatriated-a plan she fulfilled when posted to the Norwegian embassy in Moscow. But the soldier was threatened with imprisonment-in Stalinist times a common fate for ex-P.O.W.s whose loyalty was deemed questionable. The KGB offered to help, promising that he would be safe if she performed some favors at the embassy. Haavik never saw her lover again, but she became ensnared in the KGB system. By 1949, when Norway entered NATO, she was ready with a signed spy contract...
Instantly one is reminded of Fail Safe, Seven Days in May and various other pop-cult expressions of former doomsday fears. This sense of deja vu is enhanced by the casting of that archetypal movie star of the '50s, Burt Lancaster, as the leading trespasser on Government property. His SAC nemesis is Richard Widmark, still energizing his performances with a subtle suggestion of psychopathy. Playing the President's closest advisers are such good, gray actors as Melvyn Douglas, Joseph Gotten and Leif Erickson. It is all rather comforting to see these old companions in adventure from bygone matinees...