Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many are in psychology and the other social sciences, but there are others in the physical sciences and biology. Such experiments raise a host of complicated ethical, legal, political and humanistic issues. Research is a cornerstone of large universities, but experimenters who use humans may cause damage, unlike the harmless academics who warm seats somewhere in Widener. By raising questions which demand examination, human experimentation limits the classic unfettered freedom of academic research...
Most newspapers seemed to think the caricature was harmless enough to be printable, but the Washington Evening Star did not. It dropped the strip for three days. As Managing Editor I. William Hill put it: "If someone wants to go after the President that viciously, it ought to be on the editorial page. It's a little oldfashioned, I know, but we still think that the office of the President of the U.S. deserves some dignity...
...rain has done little damage in Cambridge. Cambridge Police said last night that the rain had been "remarkably harmless." Traffic kept moving, they said, and no major intersections or underpasses were flooded...
...some of the nuclear machinery may have melted into the 8-ft.-thick ice or sunk below into 800 ft. of water, which will pose problems in the expected later effort to collect as much wreckage as possible for burial. Unless the small amount of radiation is ruled harmless, the recovery team may face the long task of breaking up and disposing of hundreds of square yards of contaminated...
...developed a guilt complex about drink that it has not yet fully overcome. But there is increasing evidence of the second revolution in the public attitude toward alcohol: the country is learning to accept its drinking habit as a social custom that is as ineradicable as it is harmless when practiced in moderation. The alcoholic is a product of any drinking culture, but America is beginning to realize that he is a sick man rather than a sinner. Since 1956, the American Medical Association has recognized the alcoholic as a medical problem. The National Crime Commission appointed by President Johnson...