Word: safer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other Possibilities. Wynder also saw hope for making the cigarette safer along several other lines. One is to reduce the temperature at which a cigarette burns, now in the 800°-880° C. range, to a heat now shown to be relatively harmless-around 767.° the average temperature at which tobacco burns in a pipe. (This might be done either by adding a chemical to the tobacco, or-more likely-by changing the cut to resemble that of pipe tobacco...
...Syria conservative elements around President Shukri el Kuwatly had not managed to unseat Strongman Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, partisan of Soviet cooperation, from his job as army security chief, but they did manage to transfer some of his followers out of key posts last week, and felt a little safer...
Gauguin kept going toward the unknown and soared to fame-posthumously. Bernard, becoming enamored of Italian Renaissance masters, and veering toward mysticism, turned back toward safer paths and sank to obscurity. Though he lived to a ripe 72 (and was a key figure in bringing Van Gogh's work to public attention), Bernard never again painted with the vigor and originality of the Pont-Aven days, which ended half a century before his death...
...almost like flying," he went on to explain, "you use your body as an airplane uses its wings." Istel also pointed out that with new technical developments and a stringent safety code the sport is safer than skiing...
...until we have some certainty that we have reached agreements that are enforceable. That is, where there is good faith on both sides, demonstrated good faith. Now after that happens, then I would expect long-range programs . . . and expenditures to come down markedly. But until the world can feel safer, I can think of nothing more foolish than to weaken our defensive structure...