Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia and Communism become a major danger only in our divisions and confusions. We may have to resist Communism by force of arms. That does not give us warrant to load it with our sins and treat it as a universal scapegoat...
After several jittery weeks, Juan and Eva Perón seemed more like their old selves again. In fact, they were operating so smoothly last week that it was hard to believe that only three weeks ago Peron was wobbling under army pressure while Evita was in danger of being eased out of public life...
...Christian peace in the world. "And if, over the past three years, our nation has dealt with the Soviet Union on a basis that has been firm but that, for the most part, avoided provocation, it is largely because our Christian people have, on the one hand, seen the danger lying behind beguiling Communist propaganda, but have also seen that there was no inevitability...
...heat at the base, the climbers crawled through a rock-chocked ravine to reach the slopes. Even in the midsummer month of February, clouds can lay a treacherous coat of verglas (glaze ice) on the slopes in less than an hour. Ice or no ice, there is always the danger of an attack of soroche-high-altitude sickness. With advice from Mottet, who had climbed the peak once before, Hackett skirted the traps until almost to the goal. Then the witches' wind that circles the summit caught him full blast and froze the fingers of his right hand...
...Egyptians hope that the new system of dams will eliminate this danger, by providing "century storage" of Nile water. The stored reserves should keep the Nile flowing through the worst succession of dry years...