Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebels said all 31 persons were turned over to Red Cross representatives in eastern Cuba and that they arrived safely in Santiago. The rebel announcement said the release was carried out despite a government breach of good faith during a cease-fire arranged for the safe return of the captives...
...half life of only 54 seconds. An ultra-sensitive scintillation counter scanned his whole body for gamma rays. X rays searched his bones for radioactive deposits. There, though the now retired salesman seems to be in good health, Dr. Evans found seven times as much radioactivity as he considered safe for a man to carry around...
...rheumatism back in 1918, took a radium tonic then for about two months, quit when it gave no relief. Later, under X rays because his joints still creaked, his bones showed puzzling deposits. At M.I.T., Dr. Evans and colleagues found that he still had 25 times the calculated safe dose of radium in him, figured that he had originally consumed 1,000 times the safe dose...
...possibility is that Dr. Evans was overconservative back in 1941 when he set the safe "maximum permissible body burden" of radium at one ten-millionth of a gram. If so, some of the alarm about recent fallout may be allayed, because the 1941 radium standard was the base on which all other permissible body burdens have been computed. But if Dr. Evans was overconservative then, it was a good fault: after the haphazard misuse of radium only a decade earlier, a strong corrective was needed...
...moments are touching or sharp. But the man in the dog suit is the same man who has wooed conformity to win security, who has shaken with fright and then shaken himself free, in a dozen earlier tales. Every in-law who is not a mere caricature is a safe cliché; every point is made twice; realistic satire keeps dwindling into formula or crashing into farce. And in his way of finally rebelling against the bank, the hero is really succumbing to popular theater. What the authors should have remembered to chant each time they settled down to work...