Word: safer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a visit to Spain, Major General Charles Willoughby (ret.), longtime intelligence officer for General MacArthur, announced that he would rent an apartment and live in Madrid. Said he: "I feel much safer in Madrid behind the Pyrenees than in Paris behind the Rhine...
...explanation. Britain is short of labor: nothing the nationalized coal industry has done (e.g., higher wages, social security) can induce more Britons to work in the pits. Full employment is partly to blame: coal miners' sons don't want to work underground when there are safer, cleaner jobs above...
...many-cratered, 5,620-ft. monster named Hibok-Hibok (Visayan for hot and bubbling), had gotten angry-once in 1948, again in 1950 when 68 islanders were killed. Always Hibok-Hibok gave warning-two or three days of ominous huffing & puffing that gave Camiguenos time to retreat to safer reaches of the island, or even to take boats to Mindanao, seven miles to the south...
...next forty-five minutes Nixon had the newsmen rifling madly through the nine-page handout, trying to keep up with him as he jumped from page to page. "Just stick to the release," I was told afterwards, "it's safer that...
...They daubed it with blue and gold paint, whitewashed it, painted it red and white. Last week, as patient janitors scrubbed off the latest coat of paint (brown and green), President Clarence R. Decker lost his patience, ordered the bust taken from the campus yard and moved to a safer spot in the law building. Said he: "It's just getting to be too much to put up with...