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Word: safely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...killer called aminotriazole. The chemical, he said, had been tested on rats and had caused thyroid cancer. And so consumers should avoid buying Washington and Oregon cranberries until a way is found to separate the good berries from the bad. In fact, said Flemming, housewives should be "on the safe side" and not buy any, unless they could be sure that the berries were not tainted. As his advice hit the headlines, housewives, supermarkets and restaurants swept cranberries off their shelves, shopping lists and menus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUREAUCRACY: The Cranberry Boggle | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...come to work, Brazil is determined to lend all the support it can. "Here man is overwhelmed by the enormity of nature," says SESP Physician Carlos Guimaräes. "But we are going to make the Amazon a safe and healthy place to live. Then it can produce wealth and abundance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RIUER SEN: Men and Medicine Move-ln on the Amazon | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...Crimson '63 eleven, it was a disappointing end to a 2-4 season, especially after the team had jumped to a seemingly safe lead in the first period. The Yardlings opened the scoring then with a beautiful play in which Kinnney handed off to Hobie Armstrong, who headed around right end on a reverse, suddenly stopped, and flipped to end Ron Bonebrake in the end zone. Taking advantage of a few breaks and continuing to move the ball well, the Crimson scored again on a Kinney to Taylor aerial...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Yale Teams Sweep Freshman, J.V. Football; Dominate House Tackle; Lose in Soccer, Touch | 11/21/1959 | See Source »

...just weeks away, Arthur Flemming last Monday gave cranberry growers the short end of the wishbone. Experimenting with "aminotriazole," a weed-killing chemical that some Pacific Northwest growers use in their bogs, government chemists had produced cancer in the thyroid gland of a mouse. "Just to be on the safe side," Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, advised America's housewives not to buy any cranberries until extensive testing had been completed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cranberry Bog | 11/17/1959 | See Source »

...action. While British troops garrisoned in Singapore mounted roadblocks in "purely coincidental military exercises," police swooped down on known Triad hideouts, within 48 hours had 60 gangsters behind bars. Lee plans to impose curfews on all known gang-dominated quarters of the city, to make the streets of Singapore safe to walk again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SINGAPORE: Triad in Trouble | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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