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Word: harmless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remote that "you can't get anything." He does keep a working set at his desert retreat in Palm Springs, but he says, "I never find anything on it." He is contemptuous of adventure programs ("Fictionalized crime doesn't interest me") but thinks that TV violence is harmless: "Crime comes from people with a caged-up obsession, something locked up inside. Reading a dirty book doesn't stir up a sex maniac. Just the opposite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Truman and TV | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

When the speech was over and she prepared to go, her small entourage surrounded her, and the man at the door picked up all the "Daily World's" that he hadn't sold. American communism seemed suddenly harmless, out of touch, and a little bit funny. But it had provided a woman with a way of life, and she would see it through...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Charlene Mitchell | 11/5/1968 | See Source »

...just two of God's children singing and looking much as they were when they were born, only a little older." British music magazines refused album ads showing the cover. Then the couple was nabbed and charged with possession of marijuana, which Lennon once described as a "harmless giggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 25, 1968 | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...weeks after visiting the Silver Moon, I left for a short swing through Mississippi. My job was routine and harmless; I was simply trying to find places that would sell the Courier. In practice, that meant finding black communities on the back roads, convincing a grocery store or a small black boy to sell the paper, and leaving sample copies to jolly up the local readers. Then I drove...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Southern Schizophrenia: | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

...realized that a pick-up truck was following me. Not thinking too well, I decided that the best thing to do would be to get out of town--I hadn't left anything in the hotel, and maybe my renunciation of BF Young would convince potential rednecks I was harmless...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Southern Schizophrenia: | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

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