Word: safer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road to a safer and more hopeful state of world affairs," said Kennan. "is not to be traversed in any giant strides." The way to lessen tension between Russia and the West is to break the conflicts down into specific problems and treat each one separately. "For this, it is not the hectic encounters of senior statesmen under the spotlight of publicity which we need; it is the patient, quiet, orderly use of the regular channels of private communication between governments...
...wide grin of content, while a group of foreign policy experts sadly shook their heads. The chief reason for the lobbyists' "job well done" expression was the Congressional cutback in the Administration's foreign aid bill. The conservative business, manufacturing, and extractive industries which these men represent feel safer from economic competition from the "developing world" and feel somewhat more secure about a tax rate rise with foreign aid cut by a billion dollars...
After months of chauvinistic resistance against using the U.S. Salk polio vaccine, ostensibly because the British-made vaccine is better and safer (TIME, Aug. 26), the British government finally capitulated last week. Admitting that its own vaccine is in critically short supply, the Public Health Ministry ordered "forthwith" enough Salk vaccine to supplement British vaccine supplies for inoculation of all children under 15 and expectant mothers. The policy reversal came too late to do anything about this year's grim polio season in Britain: 3,732 cases reported through August v. 2,077 for the same period last year...
...Yuma (Columbia). "Safe?" sneers the marshal. "Who knows what's safe? I know a man dropped dead from lookin' at his wife." By that standard, moviegoers will be safer at this picture than at home. The marshal is trying to "deppytize" a passel of Hollywood tender-seats to convey a captured dry-gulch artist (Glenn Ford) cross country to catch a train, but the bandit's gang is on the lurk, and the cowboys aren't having any. They leave the job to a drought-poor homesteader (Van Heflin) who needs the money...
Trouble was that of two firms licensed to make Britain's own modified Salk vaccine, only one had got into production, and this was far behind schedule. But the Ministry stuck to its guns, insisted that British vaccine is safer and more effective than the American.* British critics of the Ministry felt that it had put national pride above the welfare of polio victims in 1957. It was a good bet that with home-grown supplies still lagging, Britain would be importing straight Salk vaccine from the U.S. or Canada in time for next year's polio season...