Word: safer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engaging and presumably intelligent college student. She proposes to resolve his unhappiness by keeping him under careful observation herself and having him analyzed. This will come to no good end if she marries him, but she probably won't and all will be well. She will be on much safer ground mothering nursery, school kids, at which she seems to be pretty adept...
Wylie thinks the actual tackling is safer because ruggers don't normally clash head on. "I tried that in Bermuda last Easter, and got badly jarred,' he says. Now he usually makes his tackles from a player's side or back, since it doesn't matter much if he gains an extra yard...
There is some argument that by killing Schuster, the Brink's crew would be scaring away witnesses who could put Willy on ice. But anyone who could testify effectively against the Actor probably was informed why Schuster was killed and was assured that he would be safer taking the stand than shying from it. For Willy, times had not been good. He never did have an organized gang; he had only universal sympathy and respect in the underworld...
...scores of laboratories gadgeteering goes on. Atomic medicines are being put into capsules, safer and easier to handle than long "hot" drinks. To irradiate cancers in the stomach and bladder, balloons are inserted which can be filled with radioactive liquid or fitted with a solid, pinpoint source of radioactivity. Radioactive gold wire is built into hollow nylon sutures to be stitched into a tumor. For external radiation, frighteningly powerful amounts of atomic energy are being baked into little wafers of cobalt ("the poor man's radium...
When the Devil comes up in conversation, modern Christians have a tendency to tuck up their skirts and scurry to the shelter of safer doctrinal topics like the brotherhood of man or the Sermon on the Mount. In a book called Satan (Sheed & Ward; $5.50), newly published in the U.S., a group of scholars under the editorship of Father Bruno de Jesus-Marie, a French Carmelite, have made a frontal attack on the question of what the Devil is and what he should mean to a Christian...