Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, Man. The beatniks were wise enough to rest their case heavily on respectable-but not square-lawyer Matthews, angel of the Gas House. Defending his friends (and his investment, such as it is), he argued that the beatniks were really harmless. "The fundamental rule," said he, "is 'Thou shall not bug [disturb] thy neighbor.' And we have three dirty words: race, creed and color. I'm not going to regulate people's mores . . . not even the winos'." As for the sound of the bongos, Matthews confessed that he was helpless to stop it. "Sure...
ROMPER ROOM-"At least it's harmless...
...Stop at Coon Rapids. Khrushchev seemed ready to reciprocate. At a rare, Western-style press conference at the Kremlin, he said that he was going to the U.S. as a "man of peace ... I am prepared to turn my pockets out to show I am harmless." He would, he said, refuse any invitations to visit U.S. military installations. He was not going to the U.S. to find out how strong the U.S. is-"One would be stupid not to know that the U.S. is strong and rich...
...Albania. More than this would be required to justify a further trip to the summit. Casting about for a relatively harmless concession, the Russians indicated that they were willing to be somewhat more reasonable about an inspection system to enforce the long-discussed ban on nuclear testing. To France, which is making its own H-bomb and hopes soon to test it, this was no attraction...
Pavan called his discovery Iridomyrmecin. By 1948 he had reduced it to its pure crystalline form, reported that Iridomyrmecin was deadly to many insects but harmless to man. It showed signs of being highly effective against the germs producing typhus, cholera and tuberculosis...