Word: dangered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sandwiched between lead-heavy Jacobean dinettes and cluttered Victorian parlors. His stark plywood chairs were ornamented with fussy crocheted antimacassars, his baby carriages fashioned like battleships. The level-headed modern designer, set loose among America's gingerbread and fake Tudor suburbs and neo-Renaissance row houses, was in danger, according to Steinberg, of having his dearest creations turned into a series of meaningless stylistic mannerisms...
...Hills usually gets a coat of cardinal red paint (Stanford's color), and numerous blue C's appear on the Farm. At Stanford, the defense of the college is turned over to the freshmen. Groups of these eager youths patrol the campus all night long. At any sign of danger, they ring the fire bell, the signal for the whole college to come to their aid. Both universities threaten expulsion for anyone caught defacing property, but the custom has grown of turning anyone caught over to the freshmen, instead of the University police. Solemn rites are then performed...
Even if a single dose is brought down within safe limits, a child is still in danger of overexposure. Most authorities set three exposures in one day, or twelve in a year, as the maximum allowable. But on many machines there is nothing to keep a moppet from pressing the button again & again to see his wiggling toes. And if mother is hard to please, the salesman will want to give her another look...
...strike of metalworkers would hold a special danger for Finland: it might delay delivery of Finnish reparations to Russia. That, explained Premier Fagerholm last week, was what the Communists wanted; delay might give Russia an excuse to "intervene" under terms of the peace treaty...
Pasquel offered him $75,000 cash to sign (and double the salary he was getting with the Cardinals). Stan promptly made a date with Cardinal Owner Sam Breadon to say goodbye. But Eddie Dyer, in serious danger of becoming a manager without a ball club, saw Musial first. Stan stayed around, led the league with a .365 batting average, helped win the pennant and the World Series, was elected the league's most valuable player...