Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always turn out the same, might have varying potency, or none. But something could be 'read between the lines of his report. One patient has had the beef-brain-extract injections for as long as 18 months, and another for eight months, so, while it may be relatively safe, it is no prompt cure...
...size of the audience that any show can command has been cut down by the growing competition of the fast-rising ABC network and independent stations. Thus, advertisers will have to pay more to reach a given number of viewers in the future. It is making them nervous, safe-playing, and eager for "the sure thing." This season, a Variety rundown showed last week, they have canceled 55 of the 121 nighttime shows on the three networks. Next fall will see TV's most drastic change in program schedules-and the least promising...
...hero, James Dixon, is a barely competent provincial instructor in medieval history who has no desire to be a gentleman; he wants merely to be a safe and smug academic bureaucrat. His character has not been tempered on the playing fields of Eton, and he is as proud of his beer tastes as he is irritated by his beer income. To hold on to his teaching post he becomes involved in a series of tawdry, inept and sometimes hilarious maneuvers. This display of self-serving clownmanship has catapulted his saga through 18 printings and left countless Britons alternately fuming...
...your article "Making Cigarettes Safe" [April 22]: Has Researcher Wynder tried ethyl alcohol (possibly in the form of bourbon or Scotch) for extracting the natural waxes from the tobacco leaf? One could have a smoke and a drink all in one and eliminate the need for the hip flask...
Prodded by such sentiment, Washington's erstwhile big spenders were scrambling like refugees to the safe side of economy. None made the move with more agility than Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. Before recess Lyndon had edged close to the border, but he had also aired his private conviction that the budget flap would soon blow over. Ten days of Texas barbecues and bellyaching had turned him into economy's all-out champion: "I have never in my career seen such a strong demand for economy in Government." So general was the agreement that Capitol Hill was betting...