Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...captured by hand. Monkeys are more difficult, especially the vervets, who can swim underwater for as long as two minutes. The technique of capture is the same for both-one hand grabs the tail, the other the back of the neck. Otherwise the would-be rescuer is in danger of literally losing his face. The apes are then thrust into cages on the boats and later released on the shore of the lake...
Prado cries: "I feel wonderful." One sign of his confidence: he bucked Peru's Roman Catholicism by pushing through an annulment of his 40-year marriage to a long-estranged first wife, then married Clorinda Málaga, 53, his great and good friend for 25 years. The danger of a military coup remains; the pro-oligarch army is uncomfortable in the new atmosphere, but otherwise Prado's course is paying off. He has repressed the Communists and helped nurture a middle class of 350,000 families that is moving into the middle ground between oligarchs and masses...
...long echoing corridor. The stack area is air conditioned, with the air being washed, filtered, and run between electrically charged plates, to prevent disintegration of the books. The temperature is kept constant, and the walls are fireproof. In fact the library is so carefully constructed that the only possible danger is that at some time a water pipe might leak and inundate the stacks. To guard against this remote possibility, the library has a number of leak detectors, protruding from the walls, and troughs beneath the pipes to catch any excess water...
...danger that Soviet progress in antiaircraft missiles will cancel out SAC's power has been largely overcome by U.S. progress in air-to-ground missiles, which will enable bombers to fire at targets hundreds of miles away. Most promising: the 500-mile nuclear Hound Dog. Under development are new Hound Dog versions with ranges up to 1,000 miles...
Those who mitigate the danger of the missile gap argue that the aggressor would need more missiles than his opponent. For an aggressor presumably would initiate a mass attack only if he calculated that he could avoid being devastated in retaliation. To do this he would need to wipe out his opponents' missile arsenals, besides his cities, and this would necessitate expending a large number of rockets to allow for underground installation and inaccurate firings. The United States, it is thus argued, would not need as many missiles as the Soviet Union, for we require only enough to discourage their...