Word: safely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visiting British newsmen, who was disconsolately staying at Moscow's Hotel National. Burgess, now stocky, florid, and with greying hair, seemed fidgety but in good health. His mission was to ask Churchill's help in appealing to someone in the Macmillan party for a safe-conduct that would enable Burgess to visit his sick 70-year-old mother in England. Churchill refused (another British correspondent, over a Scotch, promised to make inquiries, but with little likelihood of a favorable answer). Though rebuffed, Burgess chatted for several hours with Churchill...
...safe to say that Samuel F. B. Ferdly had never looked worse. His face was haggard, his jaw hung open, his body slumped and sagged. He lay sprawled across the living room couch as if he had been dropped there and lacked the strength to move...
...pine-backed Cumberland Mountains walling off Kentucky's Harlan County from the rest of the world breed into the Harlan-born a primitive defiance. In years past, Harlan moonshiners disdained to dodge revenuers; safe on impenetrable hilltops, they patted rifles and taunted federal agents with doggerel. Harlan justice was rudimentary; seldom was a killer hanged, but often one murder was avenged with another. And when the United Mine Workers set out 30 years ago to organize Harlan's prosperous coal mines, pitched battles between "Bloody Harlan's" miners and company police brought out the National Guard...
...taking long walks. To the end of her life, she liked walking; someone has said that she moved like a souped-up glacier, or like a mass of primordial mud. Though young ladies did not usually walk alone at night in those days, Gertrude knew she was safe. In fact, she promised to climb a tree at the approch of a masher--then drop on him and squash...
Castro's government has refused safe conducts to those it considers refugees from justice. This has aroused opposition in the capitals of Latin America, where the right of asylum and safe conduct is traditional...