Word: dangered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a dangerous oversimplification in that theory. If carried to extremes, it would bind the U.S. to help any unsavory opportunist professing antiCommunism. But Wedemeyer saw no such danger in Chiang's case: "I personally think he is a fine character. He is the logical leader of China today. I went there prepared not to like him, from things I had heard. He needs our help and he should...
...their nations would try to do next. Yet the pattern was fairly clear: 1) the U.S. and Britain would try (with or without French cooperation) to put their zones of Germany to work; 2) through the Marshall Plan, the U.S. would try to lift distressed Europe out of Communist danger; 3) Russia would try to wreck both these plans...
...government suggested ?50,000 as a likely figure for the consort's annual allowance. Joseph Hume, the radical member for Kilkenny, thought it was too much. "Are you aware," he asked his Tory colleagues, "of the danger of setting a young man down in London with so much money in his pocket?" The House of Commons took a vote and decided that ?40,000 a year was ample for Victoria's Prince Albert...
...there are other implications, of which the pet turtle bootlegging ring is only one example. Not only is the grocery store cat in constant danger from the racketeers, but even the squirrels in the Yard are not safe. The story of the captured rat of Hollis Hall, for which the world is not yet ready, is known by some and suspected by many, but the tale is too horrible to tell. It is enough to say that had the event been made open and legal by University Hall from the beginning, many lives and many hearts would have been spared...
...graceful dropping curve. The tanker fires a kind of harpoon-gun, which shoots another line to tangle with the receiver's line. Clawlike devices on the two ends lock together. The receiver hauls in both lines. Next comes a fuel pipe filled with nitrogen gas to minimize danger of explosion. Then comes gasoline, flowing by gravity at 100 gallons a minute. The tanker can supply up to 2,000 gallons...