Word: dangering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atmosphere from the plant. Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh advised the evacuation of all pregnant women and preschool children living within five miles of Three Mile Island, and thousands of people fled the area. As tension mounted, engineers struggled to cool the reactor's core. There was a genuine danger of a "meltdown," in which the core could drop into the water coolant at the bottom of its chamber, causing a steam explosion that could rupture the 4-ft.-thick concrete walls of the containment building; or the molten core could burn through the even thicker concrete base and deep into...
Higginbotham stressed the danger of becoming complacent about King's achievements of desegregation. The achievements are of no use "if all that we have is desegregated, inferior education for blacks," he said...
...sets out on a journey on which depends the future of his race or his nation. He sets out to achieve his identity in the most widely accepted tradition of Western literature: the journey. From the Odyssey to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, amidst the background of superhuman danger, virtue came in the struggle of the hero and his triumph over evil forces...
...complete illusion that Saudi Arabia is a so-called moderate country, as far as we are concerned. Saudi Arabia, by the way, is in real danger. I heard from a very wise man the following saying: "It's not a state, it's a family." A family of 3,000 princes. And corruption reaches the sky there. So they better be careful. They have South Yemen on their border, and in South Yemen there are already Cubans. So they shouldn't behave so haughtily toward everybody, including Israel. They have all that oil, but they cannot drink...
...overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens. But in late 1977 Helms was allowed to plead no contest to watered-down charges that he misled the Senate, and this winter the Justice Department simply dropped charges against the ITT officials. Now it appears that the FBI case is also in danger of aborting. Why? National security. Lawyers for the accused insist that their clients cannot get a fair trial unless sensitive Government secrets are brought out. Rather than disclose them in court, the Justice Department has been avoiding trial altogether...