Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Third World nations, arms may well deter external aggression, but even the best-equipped troops of an unpopular regime are unlikely to hold off forever a domestic revolution. Witness Iran or Nicaragua. Thomas Barger, a former president of Aramco Oil and a director of Northrop, points out the evident danger: "When you get a lot of playthings, how long is it before you want to try them...
...unilateral policy of weapons-sale restraint can be bootless. But a policy that exalts a lack of restraint can likewise reap a whirlwind of unwanted, unpredictable challenges. If Reagan abandons any serious attempt to seek controls for the flow of weaponry, he will have given in to a danger that threatens American interests, with only the poor excuse that others...
Even some Israelis felt that the Administration's response was out of step with reality. Asked a high-ranking Israeli intelligence official: "What are Mubarak's main problems? A pre-emptive strike by the Libyan army? Nonsense. The main danger for the Egyptian regime is within Egypt; the real challenges are poverty, hunger, the opposition groups, and the imams preaching at the mosques...
...Piniella's theory that ballplayers reach a mental "danger point around 35 or 36," and if they get through it, provided they have taken reasonable care of their bodies, they can go on for ages. "It's just something regular that happens when you reach a certain age," agreed Bobby Murcer, 35, a self-mocking sort whose clubhouse chair is a rocking chair. "They put you on the back burner." The Yankees' new slogan: "Veterans Power...
...deportations to Siberia, the betrayed Warsaw Uprising, the means by which Communist rule has been imposed on Poland since 1944. And they also remember three examples of Soviet "brotherly help": Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Afghanistan in 1980. Can anybody seriously maintain that the Poles underestimate the danger? Just the opposite: at a certain moment of their history Polish people simply understood that sooner of later they would also fall a victim to sovietization--which, enforced in either a violent or in a "peaceful" way, is the destiny of every country in the Soviet orbit. The only...