Word: safer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minute. The pilot could not get close enough to drop his supplies. The expedition made another try by helicopter. It was impossible to land the big machine, but the guide dropped his rescue packages to the boys along with a note telling them how to reach a safer spot. As the helicopter hovered off, its passengers could see the boys start along in the direction indicated...
...Hungary's Little Bear constellation, had written to Mike, asking him to send no more parcels or letters. And, perhaps dimly perceiving the days of terror to come. Communist Kadar had also advised Farmer Kadar to stay in Canada because he and his family would be "much safer...
...reduce the dangerous speed of descent, they jettisoned batteries, oxygen apparatus, everything in the gondola that could be torn loose. They were drifting over the sandhill cattle country of northwest Nebraska, and little by little the descent of the balloon decreased to a safer rate. As the gondola approached the ground, the crew detached the gasbag, which soared off on the wind. The gondola dropped the few remaining feet, its fall cushioned by a plastic shock absorber, and the two men from Mars stepped out. Almost at once a light airplane piloted by Don Higgins of Ainsworth, Neb. landed beside...
...sometimes with real political virtuosity, as often as not with "a thin streak of cruelty.'' (Said Tammany Hall's Big Tim Sullivan in 1911 when F.D.R. was a brash young New York state senator: "This fellow is still young. Wouldn't it be safer to drown him before he grows up?") About economics Roosevelt knew little; in foreign affairs before World War II he was vacillating. But his political dexterity would have tickled Machiavelli, and his confidence and vitality astounded many a first-class intellect blessed with only a second-rate temperament...
Edith Hunter, in "The Questioning Child and Religion" [Oct. 8], speaks of the child who wants to go to the movies on Sundays so that Jesus won't come again and snatch her away. Wouldn't the child be safer in Miss Hunter's Unitarian Sunday school, for Jesus would never think of looking there! (THE REV.) GEORGE E. CONDIT...