Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worse position than at any time since war's end, and by last week every plain newspaper reader in Britain and the U.S. knew it, and knew more details than he had ever known before. Britain's dollar reserves had dropped almost to $1.2 billion, dangerously below the safe minimum of $2 billion. In short, Britain was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy; since she acts as banker for the whole sterling area, her plight also meant the danger of panic and dire economic distress from Manchester to Melbourne...
Next morning, the Süddeutsche apologized for its stupidity in printing the letter, explained it had done it only to prove that the danger of anti-Semitism still was rife in Germany. Unappeased by the hapless apology, Bavaria's Jewish community proclaimed: "None of us wants to stay in this country . . . We have our own country...
...Union today maintains the largest peacetime military force in the history of the world . . . The combination of ... a huge aggressive force on one side and admittedly inadequate defense forces on the other has created a morbid and pervasive sense of insecurity in Western Europe. The fear is justified. The danger is real, however much some may try to argue it out of existence...
...combination singing cowboy and vice-presidential candidate in last November's election, announced the results of a bit of deductive thought. Interviewed last week on the Meet the Press radio show, he said that he had concluded that the "American people do not want a splinter party." In danger of becoming a splinter himself if he didn't get Democratic Party support for re-election next year, Glen added melodiously that he was no longer "associated" in any way with H. Wallace...
...Treasury's T-men (who pursue counterfeiters, tax dodgers and dope peddlers) and the Post Office Inspectors, the FBI usually "gets" its man before it grabs him. In some 9,000 cases last year, the FBI got 97.2% convictions. Certainly, in other hands, the FBI was a potential danger to every free citizen. It had not proved to be so in the hands of John Edgar Hoover...