Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steady Soviet military buildup since World War II has produced "perhaps the most complete reversal of global power relationships ever seen in a period of relative peace ... Unchecked, the growth of Soviet military force must eventually paralyze Western policy altogether." Haig told the Senators that the evidence of danger "is everywhere"-in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, its forces ringing Poland, its shadow over the Persian Gulf region and its efforts to stir up trouble in Africa and Latin America...
...majority of 63 Knesset members to fewer than 60, not enough to survive a no-confidence motion. A Hammer walkout would be even more devastating, since he would be expected to take with him most or all of the twelve-member delegation of the National Religious Party. Another danger was the highly credible threat that if the decision went against them, the teachers would stage a nationwide strike...
Milne, who passed around a sample of material he said would be about the same size as the irradiated material shipped to MIT's Albany St. nuclear reactor, assured councilors that there was no danger of environemtnal contamination from the shipments, which he said would not exceed 10 or 20 curies...
...Havana, just before Castro and his forces came down from the hills. He fetched up in "Papa Doc" Duvalier's Haiti in 1963 and found himself under Egyptian gunfire in Israel in 1967. It would be hard to think of a contemporary writer who has exposed himself to danger so thoroughly, in so many troubled spots...
Greene, of course, will not hear of any hint of bravery or courage on his part. His flirtations with sudden death were nothing more than "ways of escape" from boredom and what he calls his manic-depressive self. He merely sought "that feeling of exhilaration which a measure of danger brings to the visitor with a return ticket." He even uses his extensive experience of the world as a way to undercut the imaginative scope of his novels: "Some critics have referred to a strange violent 'seedy' region of the mind (why did I ever popularize that last...