Word: safer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saigon's safer atmosphere, Viet Nam's new nationalist Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem tried to inspire defiance. He formed a Cabinet of eager young Vietnamese who had never truckled to the French. "A cease-fire," warned Diem, "should not lead to partition, which no Vietnamese wants and which can only lead to a new and more murderous war." Unhappily, for Diem and for his people, he seemed to be talking against the wind...
...TIME, June 7). Last week the Navy announced that it is abandoning the hydraulic catapult. A steam-powered model of British design, already tested successfully aboard the U.S.S. Hancock, will be installed on all American carriers. The steam catapult, utilizing a hooked piston riding in a slotted cylinder, is safer than the old hydraulic model because it uses no highly volatile, explosive liquids...
...Premiers had one goal that was more important than all others: to stay in office. A "successful" Premier was the one who managed to stay longest, and however patriotic he might be, he had to shape all his actions towards continuity in office. Generally, this meant that it was safer to do nothing. Thus, a Premier formed his majority first by telling the Catholic M.R.P. that he was for EDC, then telling the anti-EDC nationalists that he did not propose to bring EDC to a vote for some time...
...they were due back, they reached the peak, left souvenirs and posed for pictures-"Like at Coney Island," Argus said. The next day they started down along the conventional north route instead of the South Buttress; it was, they knew, far easier and safer-but not really safe...
...lady named "The Flower of San Francisco." ("He sawed off my head every evening . . ." recounts the Flower, "and two matinees besides Rrr! . . . Rrr! . . . The blood flowed down to the orchestra . . . The spectators would faint!") But by this time Ferdinand has almost decided that the trenches of Flanders are safer and cozier than the walks of Lambeth...