Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle, crossing the equator at an angle of about 34° and coming only as far north as Atlanta. At its highest point (apogee), the orbit rises to 1,700 miles above the earth, descending to about 200 miles (perigee). The round trip takes 114 minutes. This is a "safe" orbit, above nearly all the drag of the atmosphere, and higher than the orbits of the Russian satellites...
...reckoning. "Menderes is a master brinksman," says one U.S. observer, "and somebody has to outbrink him sooner or later." Even Menderes himself once moodily remarked: "You know, I'm the kind that prefers a fast, flashy sports car with all its risks to a slow, safe passenger...
...Sumatra home, where he has moved his family because he feels no longer safe in Java, Sjafruddin explained: "This must not be a political adventure. We do not want to install ourselves in political power. What we want is to bring down something bad. The terror in Djakarta makes it impossible for Parliament to act freely. But I hope my letter will cause further developments which will make unnecessary the formation of an emergency government. If it fails, we may have no other recourse...
...luxury hotel, a glittering restaurant and an eye-popping skating rink on top of a mountain, connected them to Caracas and the sea with a soaring system of cable cars, then started boring a tunnel under the mountain. With such elaborate pump-priming to ensure economic wellbeing, he felt safe in crushing political independence. Who would want to pay the hard price of freedom so long as the government provided full employment and full bellies? Such glib judgments were proved hollow last week as Venezuelan rebels faced Perez Jiménez' machine guns without flinching in the streets...
Though makeshift and spotty, the play is not just one more movie-soppy, movie-safe bit of lonely hearts and flowers, or just one more cleverish game of theatrical double-dummy stage writing. It has its quite funny and its reasonably touching scenes, some nice dialogue, flashes of real theater, touches of real feeling. But it mingles thematic movement with technical bar-chinning, the capacities of an author with the commonplaces of a situation. And though it does not falsify its ending, it oversentimentalizes it. As a two-character piece, it has wasted moments and overworked effects, more changes...