Word: dangered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...score of that game, 52-50, is misleading, since the varsity was never in any real danger and at one point in the second half held a nine-point bulge. Actually, Barclay's team left the floor thinking they...
...preferable to cowardly submission. "When there is choice between cowardice and violence," said Gandhi, "I advise violence ... I cultivate the quiet courage of dying without killing. But to him who has not this courage I advise that of killing and being killed, rather than of shamefully fleeing from danger...
...Artagnan! He calmly scales a castle rampart at night, casually rips down whole sets of draperies with a flick of his wrist, hefts a 500-pound bronze statue and chucks it at half a dozen charging varlets--and then springs up a tavern wall to help a friend in danger. In the arms of evil Lady de Turner, he shows that he's just a simple country boy at heart...
China's Communists, well aware of the danger to them of increased U.S. aid to Chiang, blustered and threatened. "If the American government should dispatch its armed forces, whether for all-out or partial protection of the Kuomintang government, this would constitute armed aggression against . . . China ... All the consequences thereof would have to be borne by the American government...
...second floor, said Public Buildings Commissioner W. Englebert Reynolds, stays up only "by force of habit." Some of its beams carry ten times their normal stress. The marble grand staircase is in danger of collapse. The heavy (70 Ibs. to the square foot) frescoed ceiling of the East Room has a six-inch sag, had to be shored up with timbers to prevent its caving...