Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking on the social and economic progress of Pakistan, Jalal pointed out that the two chief objectives of the Five-Year plan are a safe, but sufficient food supply, and a 75 percent increase in industry, to meet the demands of a population that is increasing at the rate of two a minute. Pakistan also hopes to raise its $60 per capita annual income by at least 7 percent. This compares with a $2000 to $3000 per capita income in the United States...
There are comic scenes that approach the .best in Sean O'Casey, as when a shrewd old lag with a game leg solicits a massage from a warder in order to get drunk on rubbing alcohol. "Which leg is it?" asks the warder. "To be on the safe side," says Convict Dunlavin, "you'd have to do two of them. It's only the mercy of God I'm not a centipede, sir ... Ah, that's massive, sir. 'Tis you that has the healing hand." The warder turns, and Dunlavin sneaks a great swig...
...raise a tiny church, the building fund was oversubscribed by the next day's mail. Once he put an agonized mother on his program to appeal for the return of her kidnaped child. When she got home from the television studio, the baby was on her doorstep, safe and sound. Mexicans thank Paco Malgesto for that...
Most delegates favored a Salk-type (killed-virus) vaccine, but there was still some argument as to how best to make it safe. The U.S. uses the Mahoney strain, which is as safe as any other if actually killed, but is a vicious cause of paralysis if live virus accidentally gets through. Britain avoids Mahoney like the plague, uses a strain that causes less paralysis even if live particles get through. So does Europe generally...
Unfortunately, few U.S. readers got a chance to share in Kinmond's observations. The Chicago Sun-Times last week was running parts of Kinmond's Globe and Mail pieces. But to be on the safe side, the Sun-Times ran sidebars reporting that "prominent Chicagoans joined in praising the series," and-as if fearful that the stories might be construed as recognizing Red China-methodically cut out most of the very insights and everyday details that the U.S. press cannot get until it is permitted to send reporters...