Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Archbishop to return to Cyprus itself, nor would it comply with his demand for immediate lifting of the state of emergency in Cyprus. But Makarios would "obviously" be a participant in future discussions on the status of Cyprus, and, in the meantime, the government was prepared to offer safe-conduct out of Cyprus to any EOKA member who wanted to leave. (As a token of good faith, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the Governor of Cyprus, called off a dragnet operation by 3,000 British troops who in Harding's confident view were on the verge of capturing Colonel...
Melted the Goose. In Memphis, safecrackers cut into a safe with acetylene torches, made off with 400 silver dollars, left the charred remains of $3,000 in cash and checks...
With an assist from Nehru, who stumped the "safe" district of North Bombay on his behalf, even V. K. Krishna Menon, the sharp-tongued bane of the U.N., won a seat in Parliament. By week's end, with millions of votes still uncounted, the Congress Party held solid majorities in 9 of 13 state assemblies and had won three times as many parliamentary seats (174) as its opponents combined...
...Blue babies. The Blalock-Taussig operation, with later modifications, is relatively safe but does not correct the underlying defects; it merely seeks to counteract them by adding an abnormal blood shunt. Young enthusiasts believe that an effort should be made to correct the abnormalities (open the pulmonary valve, close the interventricular defect and thus correct the overriding of the aorta). But deaths during and soon after operations of this type, with the heart-lung machine...
Garden Weeder. A new weed killer developed by Monsanto Chemical Co. eliminates hand hoeing in vegetable patches. "Vegadex" destroys annual grasses and broad-leaf weeds without damaging crops, has been found safe for everything from corn to garden beets. Chemical may also be used safely in some tree and plant nurseries where hand weeding costs run as high as $100 per acre annually. Price per gallon...