Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only protection against the bomb was distance. And no man could be sure of maintaining a safe distance...
...recently, in some desperation: "I have a ten-year-old son who (collects) military insignia. . . . For the past six months our name has been a byword in Downers Grove (Ill.). People start suddenly and streak for home when they see any of us approaching. No one is safe from our friendly, but firm, tug on the sleeve and an insinuating voice saying, 'That's a nice patch you're wearing; have you a spare you don't need?' And so it goes. . . . Would appreciate anything you gentlemen . . . can furnish Bobby and me." We furnished Bobby...
...strain on these facilities during the next four years. Durant is frankly anxious about this period of overerowdedness, and even the Corporation seems aware of the problem. And while the Corporation consults no one, Durant will consult with Durant until a sound, hard-headed, and thoroughly safe solution is reached...
...winds troubled Sammy Snead, the Virginia hillbilly with a reliable swing and an unreliable temperament; his powerful drives were swooped up by gusts and landed in the rough. When somebody told him the same thing was happening to everybody else, unpredictable Sammy Snead finally settled down to steady, safe playing. It won him his first British Open with a 290, four strokes better than his fellow American Johnny Bulla and South Africa's Bobby Locke. It was only the second major championship that Snead had won in 10 years of topflight, big-money playing (his first: the 1942 P.G.A...
...emotional maladjustments of this unhappy quartet are pictured with realism and honesty. But an honest solution to all their complex problems would certainly have endangered the film's entertainment possibilities. Producer Dore Schary took no such risk. After a bang-up barroom brawl and an exchange of neat, safe platitudes, everything at the fade-out is suddenly just dandy for everybody...