Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they crossed Wyoming, they encountered dangerous thunderstorms. Said Maxie: "I said to Kris, 'We could land and do this another day.' " The reply: "We'd better go for it." For six hours, they drifted in the center of the storms. Finally, over Rapid City, S. Dak., they broke into the clear, propelled eastward by winds that drove them up to 90 m.p.h. Then, as they crossed the Great Lakes, Maxie fell ill from lack of oxygen and too many cookies. Bundled in two sleeping bags against the subzero cold, Maxie switched to pure oxygen and recovered...
Martin often writes perceptively and sympathetically of his hero villains. In the end, he rebukes them for going too far, for being so mesmerized by their craft that they became as great a danger to the U.S. as to the Soviet Union. But in a world where the KGB has grown increasingly aggressive, it is at least worth considering how far is too far. Angleton and Harvey deserve to be judged by what did not hap pen, by what the Soviets were unable to achieve while they had the watch. Now that they are gone and American counter-intelligence...
...sure that our Government has a clear idea of what it wants to achieve in a dialogue. And I am sure that the alliance as a whole is divided as to what its common position ought to be; indeed whether it needs a common position. So the danger is that talks will either become purely atmospheric and give the illusion that progress is being made and thereby ratify what the Soviets have done in Afghanistan, or they will deepen the confrontation. Either course is undesirable. And that is the risk we are running with France, the Federal Republic...
...second helicopter, the crew set down in the desert because a warning light signaled that the chopper's 34-ft.-long rotor blade was in danger of failing. They discovered that it was cracked. The crew and all classified material were picked up by another helicopter...
...business of telling people what to do." Porter and senior advisers James D. Mayer and Evangeline M. Morphos all echo the necessity to avoid pontificating to freshmen. "It's authoritative advice--the best the University can come up with for freshmen," Moses says, adding that dogmatic advice "is a danger to be guarded against...