Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nations had turned back from the high hopes of San Francisco to the bitter lesson learned at Munich in 1938. There were some Americans who feared that the pact might seem provocative. But peaceful men have always found it only common prudence to build stockades in the face of danger...
...world is full of dangerous ideas, and we are both naive and stupid if we believe that the way to prepare intelligent young men to face the world is to try to protect them from such ideas while they are in college. Four years spent in an insulated nursery will produce gullible innocents, not tough-minded realists who know what they believe because they have faced the enemies of their beliefs . . . We have confidence in the maturity and intelligence of Harvard students. We have confidence in the strength . . . of American democracy. There is no danger from an open communist which...
...last two weeks, scrappy, self-assured ex-Navy Commander Eugene F. McDonald Jr., president of Zenith Radio, has been happily harpooning his competitors. Full-page ads in 30 newspapers have trumpeted the warning that all TV sets (except Zenith's) are in danger of becoming obsolete. Zenith's reasoning: any day now, the Federal Communications Commission may license Ultra High Frequencies* for TV transmission. McDonald claimed that Zenith is the only television receiver equipped with "a specially designed, built-in turret tuner" with "provision" for picking...
Academic freedom in America faces increasing danger, three speakers at last night's Young Progressive Forum in Emerson D agreed...
...getting well. Sometimes, Lipkin & Joseph charged, the doctor "tries to justify a large fee, or builds up his own importance in the patient's eyes by talking of the difficulty of the operation and how his experience and skill will be needed . . ." Unfortunately, the operation's danger is what sticks in the patient's mind...