Word: dangering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is not to say that the south is free of danger and death. Nine members of the UNIFIL force have died and 15 have been wounded by mines and in firefights. In the beginning, too many of the U.N. troops were unfamiliar with mines. Now they are becoming more savvy, and the Norwegians have brought in specially trained dogs that can sniff out the mines...
Also, along with coal mining, firefighting is the most dangerous occupation in the country. The danger and the long night shifts tend to put a strain on home life. Although the men say that firefighters do not have an abnormally high divorce rate and that their wives support their choice of jobs, their wives do spend many long worrisome nights when their husbands are on duty...
...fire, the company's job is to remove people from danger, provide medical attention, and then assist the other companies in fighting the fire. Most of the crew's time, however, is not taken up by fires but by stills (when people call Fire Alarm instead of pulling a fire box in the street), which usually involve some sort of medical emergency. Thus the Rescue company is far busier than any other company in the city, averaging close to 5000 runs a year...
...surely a banning in Boston or a burning in Butte would have hyped the book's sales marvelously, but no such thing happened, alas. With shameless self-promotion, Martin bought display newspaper ads for an open letter warning U.S. Cardinals that their church is in danger of a takeover...
John W. Gardner, the founding chairman of Common Cause and formerly Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, sees danger in certain proposals that have come forth lately from various tax reformers to eliminate or reduce the charitable contributions that Americans can deduct from taxable income. He stated his case recently at a United Way conference in a speech on which this essay is based...