Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professional Opinion. In Philadelphia, burglars who had hammered and chiseled at Berger's Florist Shop safe for hours finally gave up, left a note: "A very good safe...
...radioactive world, nobody ever feels completely safe. Radioactivity, a stealthy, silent horror that is neither felt nor seen, is both a mental and a physical hazard. Last week the U.S. had a small sample of the radioactivity fear that may become commonplace in the Atomic...
...roads to Rome last week two Italian Army trucks rolled south. They had come from Munich, with $10 million worth of art under their tarpaulins. At the Ducal Palace in the mountain city of Bolzano, the trucks halted and weary armed guards began unloading the crates. They would be safe there until a show to celebrate their return could be arranged at Rome...
Most of the paintings had originally hung in the Naples Museum, and would eventually return there. Early in the war, the Neapolitan curators stored their collection at Monte Cassino, which then seemed safe from Allied bombs. Just before the ancient Benedictine monastery was bombed to rubble, German commanders ordered the art shipped to Rome. But one freightcarful rumbled right through to Berlin; some of the boys in the Hermann Goring Division figured it would make a nice birthday present for the boss...
...knight of La Mancha" was ingenious enough to give his guards a good deal of trouble. After one of Cervantes' daring attempts to escape, the Turkish commander remarked: "So long as I have the maimed Spaniard secure, my slaves and my ships, nay the whole city will be safe." But when Cervantes finally got back to Spain, he found nothing but poverty and idleness. He had a wife, a mistress, and an illegitimate child to support. Says Biographer Bell: "We may suspect that his life at Madrid at this time was not unlike that of the soldier described...