Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were both killed by F.L.N. terrorists last month. Rumors spread through Paris and Algiers that private talks are being carried on by the French with F.L.N. representatives. Premier Debré insisted in the Assembly that De Gaulle's October invitation to Algerian leaders to come to Paris under safe-conduct to negotiate "a peace of the brave" was still open. "No other offer," said Debré, "has been or could ever be envisaged." Yet such denials did not exclude the possibility that contacts with the rebels (if not actual negotiations) have been resumed...
Under the guidance of Director Gordon Smith, the Albright is energetically pursuing a policy of buying the quick instead of the dead, the controversial instead of the safe. If, as seems likely, abstract expressionism establishes itself as the most vital painting of the period, the Albright will become a No. 1 center for serious students...
...enriched Thomas White, the "illiterate, vulgar although well-meaning" editor of the Messenger, but White was forced to record: "Poe has flew the track." Another time he wrote Poe, fearing "that you would again sip the juice," adding the wisdom of a spacious age: "No man is safe who drinks before breakfast." As if drink were not bad enough, Poe almost certainly was a drug addict; more than one of his fictional characters confessed to being "a bonden slave to the trammels of opium...
...unavoidable with any killed-virus preparation, but was intensified in the case of polio vaccine early in the 1955 vaccination season when about 200 cases of polio were blamed on infective vaccine. The U.S. Public Health Service and the manufacturers understandably redoubled their efforts to make the vaccine safe. They succeeded-there has been no such disaster since-but at the cost of an equally desirable increase in the vaccine's potency...
...hazards. The Russians are known to be planning to put a man up in a satellite. Astronomer Alexander A. Mikhailov, director of Pulkovo Observatory near Leningrad, told a TIME correspondent last week that they are also planning a manned voyage to the moon. The biggest problem, he said, is safe return, and they do not intend to risk a man until they are sure of getting him back alive...