Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rabbi Kahane condoning the murder of Arabs as they assemble at one of the holiest of mosques? Kahane's vicious tongue is a danger to Middle East peace...
...Malvinas is the cause of Cuba, of Latin America and of the Third World." Yet despite the self-serving rhetoric of the Soviets and their clients, the majority view is that the Falklands will not inflate into an East-West showdown. "Frankly, I do not see the danger of this escalating to that extent," Reagan said last week...
...past was sometimes merely an oafs answer to the deepest questions: What are we for? What do we do with ourselves? War meant motion, drama, change, risk, adventure, challenge, release, danger, intensity, comradeship, travel and stories to bore people with years later. It meant a nihilistic freedom. Few of us have come equipped with the spiritual resources and moral poise of Archimedes, who chose to remain in Syracuse, imperturbably thinking about mathematics while invading Romans gashed through town. A soldier stabbed Archimedes to death as he drew a geometrical figure in the sand...
...spite of this fun. However, the race can sometimes degenerate into a very base affair. There is a fine line between good physical fun and dangerous violence. It seems to me that everyone would be better off if, next year, a little of the danger were removed by banning ammunition like eggs and apples. Rotten tomatoes, water balloons, and a host of other effective and disgusting projectiles are enough to keep the race interesting...
...were hardly those of a Marxist revolutionary Nor did they pose a lethal threat to United Fruit's interests, its fruit-producing lands remained untouched But America, caught up in the hysteria of McCarthysim and the Cold War, flinched. The reflex to react immediately and decisively against any perceived danger to the capitalist status quo, in the United States or abroad, became highly developed Arbenz, a flawed politician in Schlesinger and Kinzer's eyes was nonetheless a true pluralist and certainly not a Marxist. But in Washington, where the CIA was steadily gaining influence and officials saw red in every...