Word: dangered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government, will always develop a tendency to make its own policy. Such a bureau, the prime example of which was Admiral Canaris' unit in Germany, will inevitably make the intelligence wing too powerful an organ of the government. Any such development, in the United States would create an extreme danger of upsetting the delicate system of checks and balances which insures free government...
...tree, picking a pocket, associating with gypsies for a month. In 1810, to a proposal to abolish 'the death penalty for shoplifting of articles worth five shillings or more, Lord Ellenborough had solemnly objected: "I trust your lordships will pause before you assent to an experiment pregnant with danger to the security of property . . . Repeal this law and see the contrast-no man can trust himself for an hour out of doors without the most alarming apprehensions that on his return every vestige of his property will be swept off by the hardened robber...
...thrice retreated before a barrage of yowls and hisses from the floor. One excited delegate jumped up to the mike, crying: "The country is almost lost! How can we talk about moneybags? To save the country is the important thing." Honan delegates stood up, howling: "Our homes are in danger!" and started a walkout. Shantung men called for reinforcements. Shansi wanted more bombing planes. Mongols and Turkis asked if the government had forgotten that the northwest was a gateway to the Chinese heartland. "Trust us ... arm us and we shall fight the Communist bandits...
Godin did a pretty fair job. He limited Colby--a heavy-hitting team in its own league, at least--to eight hits. Although he did give up there straight safeties in the eighth, he would have been out of danger if Will Eldridge of the Bruins hadn't thrown a downfield block on Myles Huntington as he came into second. Eldridge was out, but Huntington's off-balance throw to complete the double play got by Coulson and two runs were...
...have not considered the greatest potential danger of compulsory subscriptions: a third party being introduced into the picture. If the Student Government collects subscription money for the News and then passes it along, it is not hard to foresee a time when the Student Government, finding itself in opposition to a policy of the News, would feel obliged to use its financial power to "convince" the editorial staff. Freedom of the press flies out the window. There are already many instances of such conflicts between interests controlling the finances and interests controlling the editorial content of college newspapers...