Word: harmless
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...Shadrin was approached by KGB operatives. At the request of American officials, he signed up as a Soviet agent and began feeding his KGB spymasters FBI-supplied information about U.S. intelligence methods, much of it harmless but true to gain the KGB's confidence, and some of it false and misleading...
...There is a distinction between the ideal of ethnicity and the reality. When you have things like Philadelphia's Rizzo announcing himself as a national leader of white ethnics, ethnic chauvinism is no longer a harmless political fringe, but a dangerous national ideology," Patterson said...
...phenomenon shows "how we Italians have not yet overcome our sexual problems. This puts the clock back a century to keyhole sex." Other experts disagree. Says University of Trento Sociologist Gian Paolo Fabris: "Sex on the tube produces no guilt complexes. On the contrary, it creates an atmosphere of harmless complicity among the most repressed couples and can even stimulate desires...
Blake's reputation has grown steadily over the past 50 years. He is no longer pictured as a dotty but harmless visionary, chatting with the prophet Ezekiel at dinner; nor is his art treated, as it once was, as an appendage to his poetry. He is more apt to be seen as one of the key figures in the history of English radicalism, rendering the upheavals of his time in a framework of cosmic mythology: the friend of Tom Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft, the burning allegorist of revolution in France and America, the poet of liberty. But no exhibition...
...think cocaine is a harmless substance," Dr. Lester Grinspoon, associate professor of Psychiatry and coordinator of the association workshop, said yesterday, but added that criminal law is a "clumsy instrument" for controlling the use and abuse of the drug...