Word: safes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until the parking problem is solved, however, most other University projects seem relatively safe. For the Councillor makes no secret of the fact that he intends to clear that mess up first. "If Harvard doesn't do something soon," he threatens with a smile, "I might support that Professor who suggested they move to Peterborough. He may have come up with the best solution...
...lying clouds and a cold rain darkened the field, but by the time the first high whine of the Vulcan's Olympus engines could be heard above the overcast, the clouds had lifted enough to permit a safe landing by Ground Controlled Approach, the procedure by which operators "talk" a plane down onto a field. As London's GCA operator went to work, a respectful crowd of high-ranking airmen and their wives stood by to greet the Vulcan's distinguished crew of war heroes. The pilot was Squadron Leader Donald Howard, D.F.C., and his copilot...
...fairly certain that a deal would go through, that Russia will soon have an embassy in Tokyo, and that Japan, eleven years after defeat, will get a seat in the U.N. (four times vetoed by the U.S.S.R.). Federenko's answer seemed to blast all hope of keeping Hatoyama safe in Tokyo. As he got his weekly haircut, the Premier remarked cheerfully: "I probably will need only one more before going to Moscow." But if Hatoyama was counting on prolonging his political life by achieving a settlement with Russia, he seemed to be sadly mistaken. By last week nearly half...
...what if a community decides to permit integration anyway and support its school on its own? To prevent that-and to make sure that the drastic fundwithholding idea will be only a last resort -the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate passed three supplementary bills to keep segregation as safe as possible: ¶The "pupil placement" bill sets up a special board, appointed by the governor, to classify and assign all public-school pupils. If a parent becomes dissatisfied with the board's decision, he will have to appeal to the governor, and, if still dissatisfied, start legal proceedings...
...five-foot-eight." He loved to drink, to argue the strange vexed state of man "until the cold grey dawn and the last milk wagon have gone by," to prowl the nighttime streets alone, reveling in his aloneness. He quarreled with everyone, then endlessly apologized, and no friendship was safe from his eternal analysis. Maxwell Perkins, Wolfe's editor at Scribner's, once pleaded long before their final break: "If you have to leave, go ahead and leave, but for Heaven's sake, don't talk about it any more...