Word: saner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barbara Ward declared last night that a perpetual Cold War situation could never lead "toward a saner world society" and urged that the Western nations take the initiative in offering specific plans to ease local tensions throughout the world...
...Democratic Party to resume the executive direction of our national affairs. Second, I am assured that my candidacy would be welcomed by representative people in and out of my party throughout the country. Third, I believe any citizen should make whatever contribution he can to search for a safer, saner world...
...quickly that it has often been difficult to sort out basic issues from special cases. Definition, examination, and often agonizing reappraisal, however, have slowly had their effect. Along with the much-discussed scars of conformity and fear, introspection caused by the investigations has probably also brought a generally saner approach to the whole problem of academic freedom. No longer is the typical case necessarily that of the professor who refused point-blank to testify to a committee. Faculty people have learned that silence or impudence before investigators is usually more inimical to their own cause than forthright, honest testimony...
Today, on a score of campuses where the sport has hung on, boxing is beginning to flex its muscles with new vigor. But the revival bears no resemblance to the bloody donnybrooks of the professional prize ring. College boxing is safer and saner than ever. New rules require college fighters to wear protective headgear and use 12-oz. gloves; there is a mandatory nine-count on all knockdowns, and referees have a free-wheeling authority for stopping one-sided scraps. Protected by such careful conventions, undergraduates cut loose with skillful enthusiasm. A college fight is limited to three 2-minute...
...years that I have been reading TIME, I do not remember an article that has pleased me more . . . It is good when journalists try to achieve an orientation that will make their presentation of facts sounder and their comments on events saner. However, it seems to me that the attack on Gnosticism is beside the point . . . In all matters that have to do with human beings we must get away from notions of absolutes, first of all, because they do not exist and, secondly, because they are used as brakes on human experience and progress . . . Such things as human rights...