Word: safes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Netherland Plaza Hotel's gaudy, marbled Hall of Mirrors, A. F. of L. President William Green convened some 500 delegates for preliminaries to the second, working week of their convention. By reflection from the glassy walls, the delegates saw themselves for what they were: mostly middleaged, fattening, "safe" gentlemen with good cigars. Any businessman would have been at home with them. For they were businessmen who had made, and proposed to preserve, careers in unionism. From them and from their typical President Green came no radical proposals, no departures from the prime strategy...
...determinedly working to overthrow Naziism and betting on war as their best chance. Whether they had quit, or whether they had been turned in by their Moscow bosses, was not apparent. No large numbers of Communists were reported by correspondents to have been seen leaving concentration camps. Still comparatively safe was the active Social Democratic underground campaign, which prudently stopped cooperating with the Communists soon after Hitler came to power...
France hailed the safe arrival from Halifax of the De Grasse, Champlain and Colombie in a convoyed group and French naval experts asserted that of 30 U-boats sent out in Germany's first subsea campaign, at least ten had been destroyed by Allied fire. This rate of loss, said the French, was greater than Germany's capacity to replace submarines...
...Handling of tissues with fingers cannot be as facile, gentle or safe as handling with properly designed, delicate instruments." A surgeon should spend his life in "a constant search for better instruments until he emerges finally as an artist, not an artisan." Blood transfusion is "essential in certain disorders, and most valuable in preparing the patient for a major ordeal; but its use following a surgical performance is at least suggestive that a more careful technique would have made this unnecessary...
...survived to send the message? After the BBC had fumbled with that for a time, Berlin sent its version: that another British ship, the Browning, had been spared by the U-boat commander to care for the Royal Sceptre's crew. Later, the Royal Sceptre crew turned up safe in Bahia, Brazil. Other Berlin hotfoots: reports that "fat City men" hustle through London's financial district with steel helmets concealed under toppers; that English women are adopting a new helmet hairdo...