Word: dangering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CODDLE YOURSELF. Frostbite, associated in the popular mind with polar explorers and Everest ascenders, is a real and insidious danger whenever it is freezing outside. Just ten minutes of exposure can injure ears, cheeks, tips of noses and ungloved fingers. Smoking increases the risk, since nicotine constricts blood vessels, hastening the cooling process. Nor should one drink alcohol before venturing outside. Booze opens up the blood vessels and accelerates heat loss from the body...
...questions, but it may be well to remember that it was after all whites who ended slavery ?belatedly?in a terrible war. Besides, the millions of Americans descended from post-Civil War immigrants can scarcely be charged with the sins of other people's fathers. There is some danger that breast-beating about the past may turn into a kind of escapism, distracting attention from the evils of the present. Only if Roots turns the anger at yesterday's slavery into anger at today's ghettos will it really matter...
...conceal. He also uses them as he does his phonograph - to drown out the sounds of pain, to keep everyone at a distance from his precious, empty self. It is a perversion of language's basic function, almost a parody of it, and a clear and present danger of literacy, which, like any virtue, can be carried to excess. It is wise of Gray to note the phenomenon, kindly of him to bring it to our attention in such an often hilarious manner, supremely witty of him to make a play that will most appeal to people...
...granting the pardon, Carter once again distinguished it from an amnesty. He noted that while an amnesty would have represented an admission that the resisters were right in opposing the war, the pardon merely eliminated the danger of prosecution, leaving the moral issue unresolved...
...have summarized better the philosophy of the New New Times. The daily Times has added more than 35,000 readers on the days its supplements appear. But in the schizophrenic division of its appeal between the well-informed citizen and the well-heeled consumer, there is a real danger of a trivialization of the Times...