Word: safer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...others who roared out a football-chant countdown of "Kenne-un, Kenne-deux, Kenne-trois . . . Kenne-dix!"?warmly greeted Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy. After the trip. De Gaulle proudly told Kennedy: "You had more than a million out"?although reporters guessed that 500,000 was a safer head count...
...highly irregular and I felt very nervous, but to my great delight, Mrs. Forrer, the president of the Society for Protection of Animals, said openly, 'I am here for prevention of cruelty, and I can't draw the line at children.' " Even today, it can be safer to thrash a child than an animal. The maximum fine for mistreating a child is $70; for mistreating an animal...
...last previous cleric to be publicly unfrocked for adultery, the late Rector of Stiffkey, turned circus performer and was devoured by a lion. Thomas, choosing a safer pursuit, has turned journalist. Even as the congregation prayed hopefully for the vicar's "true repentance and amendment of life," Thomas was cheerfully splashing his life story across the front pages of the Sunday newspapers. As he told it, his plight was that female parishioners continually threw themselves at him. Said Thomas: "When I look back upon my years as a minister of the Gospel, I am by no means cast down...
...answer because their arterial disease is the main threat to life. But it shows that an artificial organ can substitute for the natural one for long periods. It will help researchers to find out what the deadly metabolic poisons are and thus, perhaps, point the way to cheaper, safer and less cumbersome ways of treating all forms of kidney disease...
...rush to select a scapegoat, most newsmen nominated the Central Intelligence Agency. "America would be safer," said the Raleigh News and Observer, if CIA Chief Allen Dulles "were allowed to depart, taking his frayed cloak and blunt dagger with him into private life." Chicago's American indicted the CIA for "a gigantic goof," and even Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt suggested mildly that the CIA "was not very well informed...