Word: safer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon after Hake was hustled away, Kemritz himself moved to safer territory in West Germany. Hake's vengeful widow trailed him. Eventually she sued Kemritz in West Berlin court, accused him of causing her husband's death, and won damages of 11,640 marks ($2,770) plus a $70 monthly allowance. At this point, U.S. occupation authorities stepped in, ruled that the German courts had no jurisdiction in the matter. Besides, Kemritz had performed "valuable services...
...Harry Cain of Washington confronted him: "I think you unintentionally, and I emphasize that word, unintentionally, did a first-rate hatchet job on General MacArthur, and certainly you led the nation to believe that General MacArthur violated a field directive." By then, Joe Collins had already retreated to a safer position. It was not a "directive" that MacArthur had violated, but a "policy clearly enunciated ... I did not state it was a disobedience or an insubordination...
...cape, a cluster of diamonds in her hair, and flashing a 23-carat, $100,000 diamond ring, she could not tell detectives for sure if anything else was stolen because "I have so much scattered around." The trinkets were recently taken from a bank vault, she explained, for a safer country hideaway. "I was worried about the atom bomb...
...about two weeks behind Caniff's Steve in story plot, no one complained of plagiarism. Since comic strips are drawn weeks before publication, both Wunder and Caniff explained that plots have to be "safe" enough to survive any last-minute turns in the war. And what could be safer, in advance or retreat, than a daring rescue...
After 20 years of syndicated punditing, Columnist Walter Lippmann last week let readers in on a handy trick of his trade. "No one can have been writing for newspapers for a long time," he wrote, "without being fully aware of how much safer it is to prophesy disaster than to venture to express a hope. It is safe to be gloomy. If one prophesies disaster and it happens, one has been a true prophet. And if it does not happen, one is readily forgiven and may even suggest that but for the warning the disaster would have happened...