Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best method for arriving at truth. Reverend George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the the University, sees truth arising "from the friction of friendly minds." Thus the University becomes almost a playing field where issues of possibly 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...
Finally the police-no longer dressed as nuns-moved in. As they arrested Bertele on the street corner, he tried to rub out the k, confessed later at D.S.T. headquarters that a clean k was an all-clear signal, a smudged letter meant danger. The police went to the next rendezvous, inscribed a clear k on the wall, and seized Kazimierz Dopierala, a secretary at the Polish embassy, when he trustingly showed...
Kistiakowsky was a member of the United States delegation to technical talks with Russia at the 1958 Geneva Conference on ways of reducing the danger of surprise nuclear attack. From 1953 to 1958, he was a member of the ballistic missiles advisory committee of the Air Force and Defense Department...
Soon after Galveston was commissioned last year, it became clear that her electronic batteries confronted crewmen with new hazards that had not shown up in earlier missile cruisers (Boston and Canberra) with lower-powered transmitters. Also, the danger of intense microwaves (TIME, April 6) had not been plotted in detail. From animal experiments and sketchy data on humans, the Navy medics set a level of 10 milliwatts per square centimeter of body surface as conservatively safe for personnel aboard missile ships. Dr. Johnson's findings on Galveston proved that this level was sometimes exceeded...
...scanning the sky to detect enemy targets, the other for locking onto them and tracking them, at first presented another hazard: a spillover of X rays. Several men were found to have been overexposed before this fact was detected, but none have shown any ill effects. The danger was eliminated by installing extra lead shielding for the klystron tubes in the transmitters. Future tubes will be made with the shielding built...