Word: safe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ensuring 'domestic tranquillity' and making America safe for decent, law-abiding citizens...
...year-old boys roaming the streets armed with knives and guns, and the mayor of Chicago suggested that the crime problem would be solved if citizens would "carry revolvers strapped outside their clothing." In San Francisco, a brawling town with more than 8,000 saloons, no streets were safe at night; murder, shanghaiing and piracy were facts of life...
...more philosophical moments, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has pondered his new boss in the international setting. He fits him into the company-if not yet, of course, the stature-of Harry Truman and Pope John, men elevated to power because they were perceived to be plain, calm and safe...
...defend principles by which men could and should live everywhere. They kept alive Lincoln's faith that this nation was destined to be "the last, best hope of earth." They were not talking the language of nationalism when they spoke in American accents of Making the World Safe for Democracy or of Defending the Four Freedoms...
...unfortunate nanny was pinned to the floor on arrival by a Rhodesian ridgeback. A baby lion playfully snapped at the heels of visiting celebrities until finally banished. "It was smelly," says Grace. Now Caroline is content with a couple of horses and her Yorkie, Tif-Tif; they are the safe kind of pet that a mother loves. But Caroline is only biding her time. As she suddenly informed Grace in the middle of a family spat, "I can fool you, Mother, I can fool you any time...