Word: dangered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Danger. No one has ever given a good reason why soccer, a game which stirs a large part of the world to hysteria, causes little but polite yawns in most of the U.S. The ardor with which U.S. fans pursue baseball is pallid compared with the interest of soccer fans in the 50-odd nations in which it is a national game. In Buenos Aires, referees are sometimes hustled out under police escort lest they be torn limb from limb by the spectators. From Moscow to Melbourne, the action and drama of the game thrill crowds who consider American football...
...supposed Dennis' protests stemmed from his unfamiliarity with the law. But after an hour-during which he was once forced to leave the bench to quiet the uproar-Medina consented to listen to a motion for acquittal based on whether the Justice Holmes doctrine of "clear and present danger" applied to the case (see above). Next day Defense Attorney Abraham J. Isserman argued, in effect, that the defendants were being denied "the right to engage in political activity...
...about a socialistic society I would say, yes, that was something it was clearly their right to do ... You are knocking down a man of straw here . . . It did not seem to me that all these witnesses were talking about peaceful things." Isserman contended that a "clear and present danger" from their activities would have to be shown. Did he mean, asked Judge Medina, that the Government had to prove a clear and present danger of the immediate overthrow of the Government...
...high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger." Freedom of speech, they said, could not be denied unless it created, in the late Oliver Wendell Holmes's classic phrase, "a clear and present danger" to public safety and welfare...
...Have This." A week before, Shanghai's Nationalist commander had warned the Hawkingses and other foreigners that their lives would be in danger unless they moved inside the city's defenses. Most foreigners withdrew, but Mrs. Hawkings, sometime of Winterbourne, Kingston, Dorset, and her husband William, who is general manager of a Shanghai shipping firm, did not budge...