Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agers out of the coffee shops in what amounts to a junior branch of the Volksarmee. G.S.T. provided a handy vehicle for just that. Linked with the party since its founding in 1952, it was taken over by the Defense Ministry in 1956. It remained little more than a harmless sports club until Ulbricht jabbed it into action this spring...
...surprise of the more skeptical Sultanites, the festival did not turn Sky River into a shambles at all. True, some locals did notice that a few kids seemed to take pleasure in making love in the rain-soaked woods, but this was rather tolerantly interpreted as a harmless aberration of the hippie culture. At any rate, the music was not so terrible and, besides, the hippies were rather charming. It tickled the townsfolk to hear the kids say that the Sun Dance had been the festival's moment of truth, that without it the proceedings would have been...
...treating certain types of cancer by radiation, doctors implant little gold "seeds" inside the growths. The seeds are actually hollow gold beads, each containing radon gas. After two or three weeks, the radon's radioactivity is virtually gone. The harmless seeds are left in place, but a few of them may be sloughed off by the body. At Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a nurse saved the seeds sloughed off by the tumor and had the salvaged gold made into a ring for her boy friend. He developed red patches on his finger. Memorial...
...engineering professor and his wife, after similar experiences, have had damaged skin removed and replaced with grafts. How had the rings become contaminated? Since radon has a half life of only 3.8 days (meaning that it loses half its radioactivity in that interval), the seeds should soon have become harmless. Trouble is, the radon turns, by nuclear alchemy, into lead-210, the radioactive isotope of that normally dull metal. The lead-210 adheres to the gold. Even so, the intact seeds are safe because the lead's rays, unlike the radon's, remain trapped inside. But in melting...
Rocky was called to the rescue. Firing overarm fastballs and slithery, if occasionally errant, sliders, the reliever quickly retired the Tigers on an easy grounder and a fly to left. In the fifth inning he walked two men but left them stranded. He gave up only one hit, a harmless double in the sixth, and was taken out of the game in the seventh with 2⅔ scoreless innings to his credit. By then the Yanks had six runs of their own. They went on to win, giving Colavito, who ranks 15th among the all-time home-run hitters...