Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last all danger was past, though the fire itself smoldered softly through the duff on the forest floor. Remarkably, nobody was killed (a few fire fighters were injured), and the only severe damage for Deadwood came with the destruction of the two lumber plants, a lot of dry lawns, a trailer park, a few houses on the town's edge, and Deadwood Dick's famous cabin in the woods. It was a nightmarish ordeal all around, but in the telling of tales that makes old Deadwood a paradise for tourists, it was bound to get much worse until...
...best method for arriving at truth. Reverend George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, sees truth arising "from the friction of friendly minds." Thus the University becomes almost a playing field where issues of possible eternal salvation and damnation are gentlemanly tossed around by polite opponents. The danger with this method, however, is clear. If University discussion takes on the atmosphere of a sporting match, too often momentous ideas can become mere playthings...
...many modern-day challenges--but this is not the point. That this stock answer and similar slogans are passively accepted by many "moderate liberals"--often without intellectual study of the economic and political implications involved for our society, but in smug and self-satisfied silence--this is the danger. By his willingness to "go along," the "moderate liberal" in name becomes the Respectable Radical in practice...
...could not get supplies to isolated garrisons, and more than one slightly wounded trooper died at a monsoon-soaked outpost for the lack of a road or airstrip to get him out to a doctor; in all Laos there is not one helicopter. In Samneua-the province in greatest danger of Communist takeover, where an 800-square-mile area is now controlled by Communist rebels-a surrounded paratroop company could not be reinforced by troops waiting to jump in and help; they had no parachutes at hand...
...were the blistering attacks on "rightist opportunists," i.e., Communist officials who had protested that the scheduled leap forward was too far and too fast. Such opportunists, said the party, "are singing the same tune as the internal and external enemies who slander us," and they are "the main danger of the moment." Thus, if heads rolled in China for a colossal doctrinaire failure, they would, typically, be the heads of men who tried desperately to stave off the flop of the leap forward, not those who obstinately insisted...