Word: safely
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Such fish are not very dangerous. According to the AEC, a man would have to live on them for years before he felt ill effects. Still, the AEC has played safe and forbidden fishing for a considerable distance downstream from Hanford...
Skill, suffering and valor were making history and legend in Korea this week; the U.S. forces and their U.N. allies, suffering heavy casualties, had fought free of the threat of annihilation and were as safe as soldiers could expect to be while the battle still raged. But the cold end-fact was that the U.S. had met defeat in Korea-a defeat that would have to be retrieved somehow, somewhere, if the world-wide march of Communism was to be halted...
...like the stamina and spunk of these people," wrote Mrs. Lois Dean, of Washington, D.C. last week in a letter containing her contribution to the rebuilding of Pastor Ye Yun-Ho's church in Seoul. "Thanks a million for the good news that he is safe; we had been inquiring about him through the YMCA," was the way another reader...
Warm Milk. Room One contained four paintings for which the Met had awarded $8,500 in prizes. The awards were all safe as warm milk; granted to men who had won many prizes before, they ran the gamut from watered-down abstractionism to souped-up realism. Basket Bouquet, an impeccable and wholly uninspiring arrangement of lilac smudges by Cape Cod Abstractionist Karl Knaths, took first prize. It looked rather like a flat but tasteful Victorian sampler, translated into the smeary medium of oils. California's Rico Lebrun came in second with Centurion's Horse, a chalky, Picassoid...
...Field, a young society woman with "charm and vivacity enough to hold her own at a Hasty Pudding Club dance or a Beck [an uppercrust Harvard dormitory] spread." Woe is Emily; these enviable talents are spent on a proper Bostonian whom she married "to be peaceful and pleasant and safe." Poor Roger, she loves him dearly but he is always catching colds and nodding agreement and failing to get her with child...