Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediate task facing Counter is to reconcile a wide variety of opinions and to correct misperceptions about the Foundation. It's stated goal is to search for common ground among the diverse groups of people at Harvard to achieve integration and better race relations. And the danger to be avoided is the possibility of the Foundation coming to fit Random House's eighth meaning of the word "foundation"--"a cosmetic, used as a base for ... make-up."PhotoThe Harvard CrimsonS. Allen Counter has asked Alex Haley to serve as an associate of the Harvard Foundation...
...dean for research and the allied institutions. The backlog of grant applications is actually slightly up from last year at this time, he reports, and few professors anticipate immediate crises. "Sheer inertia (in the federal grant process) will tide us over for this year and perhaps the next; the danger will be in the future, when more cuts could overtake some of our programs," Leahy says...
...ever has been, primarily a strategic ally. Whether they think of themselves as hardheaded or sentimental, both Israelis and friends of Israel in the U.S. must realize that for all the very real external threats faced by the Jewish state, none is more difficult to deal with than the danger that under Begin, Israel may become not only a net liability to the U.S. but its own worst enemy as well...
...camera sees gray clouds, a churning gray sea, the spray-lashed stones of a harbor breakwater, and at the breakwater's end, facing seaward, the cloaked and motionless figure of a woman. A storm is blowing up. There is danger. A passerby, a tall, mustached young man, makes his way out along the breakwater to warn the solitary watcher. Over the rising wind he calls out to her that she is not safe. Now the mysterious figure turns, plucks aside the rough cloth of her hood and stares at the man, or through him, for a few moments. Then...
...dictum was connected with Iowa Bob's theory that we were all on a big ship-"on a big cruise, across the world." And in spite of the danger of being swept away, at any time, or perhaps because of the danger, we were not allowed to be depressed or unhappy. The way the world worked was not cause for some sort of blanket cynicism or sophomoric despair; according to my father and Iowa Bob, the way the world worked-which was badly-was just a strong incentive to live purposefully, and to be determined about riving well...