Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curse," says a fellow Socialist. Evenings he sips wine with cronies and plays skat, a German pub card game. His chauffeur-driven Mercedes fetches him to work at an unproletarian midmorning hour. A solid and comfortable householder type, if no intellectual giant, Ollenhauer pitches his appeal as a safe sort of Socialist both to Germany's middle-class voters and to workers who now have a lot more to lose than their chains...
However, since it seems very unlikely that any team this year will be able to hand a defeat to a member of the varsity's top five, the Princeton match, and indeed every other Crimson squash match this year, should be regarded as a fairly safe win. Only a bad case of overconfidence or several key injuries could jeopardize the team's chances for an undefeated season...
...dwell in freedom is their only sure defense. The economic need of all nations-in mutual dependence-makes isolation an impossibility; not even America's prosperity could long survive if other nations did not also prosper. No nation can longer be a fortress, lone and strong and safe. And any people seeking such shelter for themselves can now build only their prison...
...American predecessors had done for 10 years, Lodge emphasized that all disarmament measures had to be subject to foolproof inspection and controls to be safe, worthwhile and acceptable to the U.S. As he and his predecessors had done for 10½ years, Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov countered with the usual propaganda talk about disarming and banning the bomb, with no assurances about foolproof inspection and controls-an attitude Lodge termed "bitterly discouraging...
...ballot boxes without crossing off Communist names. Nobody seemed to mind, however, when others went behind the curtain (a rare privilege in a Communist country) to mark their ballots as they pleased. However ("to avoid the kind of excitement that would lead to violence") and to be on the safe side, the government planned to make public total counts rather than precinct by precinct, and the result, said government officials, would not be issued until later in the week. As some Communists frankly admitted, this provided an opportunity for a Machiavellian manipulation of the result, in the event that...