Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fine cracked china, plays the neglected bourgeois wife of bumptious Robert Morley. In revenge, she undertakes a night on the town with Neighbor Alec Guinness. The sly old seducer lures her to a disreputable inn where-true to formula-his promised evening of bliss ends up as a harmless orgy of slammed doors and mistaken identity, climaxed by a chase involving a fat lady, a nephew, an upstairs maid, a seething proprietor, a bellboy, gendarmes, four skittish schoolgirls, an underdressed chanteuse and a doddering duke...
...surveillance, in operation since 1963, which appears to be an effective alternative to the Surgeon General's approach. At Harvard, the Committee on Research Responsibility convenes only to discuss experiments of a potentially dangerous nature -- involving drugs, electric shock, sleep deprivation, etc. -- and not those that are patently harmless. The administrative official of the Committee screens all proposals, referring to the full board only those which require its attention. The others are approved automatically. This accelerates the entire process and saves the members of the executive board undue administrative work...
Members of the Lampoon had fairly definite ideas about how the 900th aniversary of the battle should be celebrated. With profits gained from their sell-out Playboy parody, the Poonies had ordered Navy surplus rafts in which the invaders were to cross the Charles, $600 worth of harmless bows and arrows which were being manufactured for them specially, and blue-prints for a catapult loaded with 1000 tennis balls were in the making...
...elephants, he continued, has the longest tusks in the world. Among other details to be worked out, the Lampoon has ordered 100 bows and harmless arrows...
...current passing through the water between the electrodes produces some electrolysis; molecules of water break down into hydrogen and oxygen, which rises to the surface in the form of gas bubbles that could signal the sub's presence below. Swimmers who guided the sub felt a tingling but harmless sensation caused by the electric current. "It is almost exhilarating," explains...