Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...layman. Who really knows what can be in the mind of a child? Our understanding of the difficulty of knowing this, knowing this in a real sense, causes us to sympathize with the efforts, however clumsy, to get closer to an understanding of the bomb's psychological impact. The danger is in generalizing from this inadequate research and using this research to further a political agenda which allows its adherents to make often-outrageous moral claims upon the citizenry...
Nonetheless, there is a clear and present danger that the contract might be rejected by GM's 350,000 union members. The first step in ratification will take place Wednesday, when the agreement is put before a special meeting of the 300-member unit council of local union leaders in St. Louis. If they approve, the accord will then go to the rank and file for their assent. Voting could take up to ten days...
...others had tried and failed, two of them losing their lives in the endeavor. But the danger involved made the remarkable voyage all the more appealing to Joe Kittinger, 56. Last week, after more than three days of drifting through the clouds, Kittinger became the first to make a solo balloon flight across the Atlantic, setting a new long-distance record of more than 3,500 miles in the process. A three-tour Viet Nam War pilot who was a P.O.W. for eleven months, the former Air Force colonel and longtime adventurer once jumped out of a balloon...
During one such raid, a peasant seems in danger of losing his prized cow to a soldier. Fortunately, the beast leads the invader into confusion: "The German on his way through the woods was making discoveries that left him openmouthed: chickens perched on trees, guinea pigs peering from hollow trunks. It was a complete Noah's ark." In The Adventure of a Bather, a respectable signora is horrified to discover that the bottom of her newfangled two-piece bathing suit has come off while she swims near a crowded beach...
Contrasting Harvard and B.U., Thomson said B.U. "Is trying to move fast and is doing so successfully, Harvard's danger is complacency." He said his only problem has proved to be Boston's chronic parking shortage...