Word: safely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been suggested that I comment on Faculty attitudes towards the CRIMSON. I am as much perplexed for an answer to this suggesition as I often am when, on occasion, I am asked, "What does Harvard think"--about some controversial question. Faculty attitudes vary, it is safe to say; and, with less safety, I am tempted to add that I suspect that the attitudes have some relation with current attitudes of the CRIMSON towards the Facuty. I have heard Faculty opinions of the CRIMSON couched in language which is unprintable; I have heard voiced charges of "irresponsibility," "immaturity," and "inaccuracy" against...
Last week Silverstein got it again. On antisubmarine maneuvers off Pearl Harbor, Commander Charles S. Swift, the skipper, looked up to see the sub Stickleback dead ahead at 200 yds. Stickleback had just made a simulated torpedo run on Silverstein, was supposed to have dived to a safe depth. Skipper Swift reversed all engines, but was too late to avoid chopping a fatal 4-ft.-wide gash in Stickleback's side. Before sinking to the bottom, Stickleback managed to surface under its own power, making it possible for all 82 crewmen to escape unhurt. Silverstein's sea lawyers...
Back home, Lebanon's sharp-trading Christian and Moslem businessmen ruefully reckoned their losses. An estimated $50 million in foreign funds have fled, and bankers moaned that even if a compromise could halt the bloodletting, Lebanon would be a long time regaining its reputation as a safe, stable island in the turbulent Middle East...
...novel) that babies were to be grown in laboratories like fungi, happy citizens were to be conditioned by sleep teaching and there was to be no pain, no disease and-theoretically-no independent thought. Now, says Huxley, "The nightmare of total organization . . . has emerged from the safe, remote future." Main factor: the birth boom that has jumped the world's population from 700 million at the time of the American Revolution to 2.8 billion today...
...crowding of the planet means authoritarian rule because "the central government is forced to assume additional responsibilities for the general welfare." Wrote Huxley: "It is a pretty safe bet that, twenty years from now, all the world's overpopulated and underdeveloped countries will be under some form of totalitarian rule." While man is cluttering the earth with his birth rate, he is also following a "Will to Order," the fundamental wish for harmony that softens him for the propagandists of authority...