Word: safes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making it impossible for states to receive federal highway grants after July 1, 1970, unless they removed signs erected within 1,000 ft. of the road. Despite arguments that roadside signs help keep motorists awake and despite the fact that many states put up their own billboards to advocate safe-driving practices. Johnson said, "It is neither in the interests of the advertising industry or the nation to permit a further decrease of our dwindling natural beauty...
Alabama's John Sparkman, 65, is a shambling, soft-spoken man who ought to feel about as safe in his seat as any member of the U.S. Senate. After all, he is one of those "entrenched" Southern Democrats, with 28 years on Capitol Hill, including the past 18 in the Senate. He is the No. 2 man on the Foreign Relations Committee and, more important, has sponsored all sorts of legislation vital to his state's economy, like help for housing and small businesses. He shares with his colleague Lister Hill, also a TVA liberal, major responsibility...
...Secretary of the Army? It is a safe bet that no more than one out of 100 men in the street would know. For the Army Secretary, like his Air Force and Navy counterparts, is trapped in a limbo of anonymity between Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and the uniformed military chiefs...
...since they were widely introduced during the Civil War. They have been so persistent for many years, however, that less than half the U.S. population remember a time when they did not have to pay such taxes on scores of everyday goods and services, from autos to leases on safe-deposit boxes. Now the biggest excise-tax cut in U.S. history is speeding through Congress...
After such flounderings he is always glad to return to safe ground, to his "lesson," a petty combination of pedantry and sadism, punctuated by grotesque poetry such as that of his discourses on phonetics. Ionesco forces us to see the professor and his lesson as the pupil herself doubtless sees them, uncomprehending. The ridicule is so successful that the girl's inability--and unwillingness--to think emerge as virtues by comparison...