Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record seemed certain. But on the return trip, when Thompson got up to 280 m.p.h., three connecting rods on the front engine suddenly snapped under the strain, punched a hole in the engine block. Thompson was able to wrestle his wrecked car to a safe stop...
...Voluntary sterilization of husband or wife is justified when a woman's health is at stake-but never when a government makes it compulsory as a means of population control. But voluntary sterilization might be justified ("after the procreation of a proper number of children") as "a safe and easy method of family planning." One disadvantage of sterilization, the report warns, is that it is "generally an irreversible process" and may be regretted in changed circumstances. The bishops note with disapproval that sterilization operations are being increasingly sought and recommended "without any adequate appreciation of its gravity...
...with no sign of contamination." Officials in The Netherlands and West Germany said they would be delighted to receive Skate. Washington fired off a barrage of reassurances. Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover declared that ''there has been a review of all possible mishaps," and that the submarine was safe. The State Department pointed out that Nautilus was even then steaming under water toward a welcome in New York City waters...
...befriends Montgomery Pew, a feckless but amiable young Jumble who holds a job with a government welfare bureau. Montgomery pries Johnny loose from the hardhanded white law, while Johnny returns the favor by showing his pal safe trails through the Spade jungle. The pair meet such notable Spades as Peter Pay Paul, who pushes an asthma cure as marijuana; Billy Whispers, a pimp of stature; and Ronson Lighter, whose kleptomania focuses on only one Jumble artifact...
...theater's ornamental caryatids, palmettes, trellises, cartouches and balustrades were painstakingly removed and tucked away again, safe from falling bombs. Local Nazis deemed the mothballing a show of defeatism, called it a crime as bad as flight from the enemy-until Allied bombers wrecked the dismantled building in a March 1944 raid. After the war, with a new, big Festival Theater built on its old Residenz site, the administration chose a neighboring spot in the former royal Bavarian Residence, and set about rebuilding the rococo house...