Word: safe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really manly man of Rick's size would pick me up and chuck me over the balcony down to smash. But Rick was a paper man. There was no strength in him. I was safe, had been deceived. He wasn't strong or hot or warm. He wasn't a murderer. He was a suicide if anything but I doubted even that. Suicide is a sickness in health and Rick and wholly sane....I held him with the power of the human eve over a beast...
...about vacations, and finally the talk got around to the multilingual Soviets as opposed to the one-language Americans. "We speak English to Americans; Americans don't speak Russian to us," was one of the remarks. "Perhaps you've been too rich for too long or too safe for too long, but I sense a bit of arrogance," was another...
...take before practicing, which states that they will do all in their power to prolong or sustain life. But it is essential to remember that the oath was written thousands of years ago. The medical capabilities of the physician then were highly limited, so much so that it was safe to make such a promise without fear of the impending ethical questions raised by devices such as respirators or organ transplants. But many aspects of this oath are simply outdated; in fact, it includes a promise never to remove kidney stones, a standard procedure today which was fatal...
...warmed-over fare posing as art, and that is exactly what the A. R. T. has dished up. Their production, while competent, lacks the vitality and even the horror central to Shepard's vision, and it lacks anything remotely like courage Shepard has a phrase for this kind of safe, deadly theater-- "chicken shit...
Stephens said Harvard is focusing on the year-ending Heptagonal meet, which involves all the Ivies along with Army and Navy. Because of this. Haggerty is not willing to take risks by bringing people back too early, a safe but costly strategy in the short...