Word: safe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great est reason to be bitter: the wives and parents of young men killed on both sides of the Yom Kippur War. Their remembrances of their loved ones, of ten spoken through tears, render the desolation of personal loss, and make one ashamed of glib generalizations spouted from a safe distance west of Suez. "I understand their feeling of loss," an Israeli father says of Egyptians who also lost sons in 1973. "It is more than the loss of life, it is the loss of hope, of plans." "Give him my sympathy," says a similarly bereaved Egyptian. "Tell...
...long on they don't start going after out-of-state offenders I'm safe," one student, who claimed to have over 20 tickets, said. "Otherwise I could be in big trouble...
...know of no other explanation for this stranger lack than to submit that there to one target with science in its tide which is as safe to lob bricks as at the home of only low on town science fiction. Put it down and the lightning does not strike. To sneer at it is perhaps to express a suspicion that perhaps science has become too much the master, that perhaps science will become aware that dissent exists...
...were original sin. "The worst thing in our society would be to not be able to pick up a phone for fear of it being tapped," he told one of his men. "I don't want any wiretapping," he said when he was designing the Safe Streets Act. However, Senator John McClellan talked him into including a provision for wiretapping. The Congress then provided more authority than agreed upon, so Johnson ordered the Justice Department not to use that power...
...serious drama. In recent years, some of these plays have reached New York and won critical acclaim. What is of more importance is the increasing willingness of regional theaters to trust in the receptivity of their local audiences to new works rather than continually playing it safe with revivals of classics or Broadway hits...