Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to an article in yesterday's New York Times, State Department envoys to the Capitol are working to reduce opposition to President Eisenhower's appointment of Bowie. "They are telling Senators that, while Mr. Bowie has often come to the brink of disagreement with Secretary John Foster Dulles on China policy, a little diversity of views within the department actually is a good thing," the article reports...
...tire on his car. "You read too many comic books." says Dean. They fight with knives. Dean wins. The boy challenges him to a "chickie run" -a dash to the edge of a cliff in two stolen cars; first man to jump out before the cars go over the brink is "chicken." Caught between folly and disgrace. Dean asks his father what to do. Father funks out. Dean makes the run. The other boy is killed...
After seven years of armistice, Israel and its Arab neighbors are standing once again on the brink of full-scale war. While Western eyes have been turned toward other world problems in recent months, the situation in the festering Middle East has steadily deteriorated. Daily clashes between Israeli and Egyptian troops in the tense border areas have now virtually obliterated the already obscure line between uneasy peace and open hostilities...
Anastasia pretends to be a highly dramatic play, relating the romantic story of an exiled Russian princess, supposedly shot in the Revolution, who suddenly appears in Berlin nine years later. Discovered on the brink of suicide by a White Russian general, Anastasia at first refuses to admit her identity, then suddenly decides to fight for recognition from her grandmother, the Dowager Empress...
Such rides along the brink of death are much more than a demonstration of daredevil courage; the data they produce are urgently needed in an age when man is opening up dreamlike new frontiers of space and speed...