Word: dangerous
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...cloak was by Balenciaga; the dagger could come from anyone -- a bullfighter, a bellboy, a ballroom dancing partner. During World War II, Aline, Countess of Romanones lived a life of glamour and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played at in Notorious. Born Aline Griffith in Pearl River, N.Y., the former Manhattan model joined the Office of Strategic Services and was posted to Madrid in 1944, where she decoded messages at the American Oil Mission. The OSS called her Tiger. Her orders: to flush out Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler's special agent in the Spanish capital. The dark, lissome beauty moved...
Captain Glenn Brindel, 43, commander of the Stark since January 1985, knew that the gulf's serenity was often illusory. With mines concealed below, jet fighters screaming above and antiship missiles lurking onshore, sudden violence was an ever present danger. More than 200 vessels had been attacked in the gulf during the past three years. Earlier on this day, Iraqi jets had delivered missiles into a Cypriot tanker, leaving it dead in the water. The increasing threats to shipping in the vital region were precisely why the Stark was there, signaling U.S. determination to keep the oil lifelines open...
Though they remain in the minority, a growing number of economists believe the proliferating danger signals may herald a downturn. Says Pierre Rinfret, an economic adviser to President Nixon: "Continued decline of the dollar, coupled with fears of higher interest rates and inflation, will produce a recession before the end of the year." Henry Kaufman, Salomon Brothers' chief economist, suggests that there could be a recession...
...assistance. In such a world, we could enter freely into international organizations with little fear of losing control of the results. Enough countries followed our lead to insure safe working majorities on most important issues. Under these conditions, we could enjoy the fruits of international cooperation with remarkably little danger or cost...
...someone who assassinated speakers whose political views the professor judged unacceptable. It is perhaps inevitable that academic freedom protects even this degree of zaniness, but it would be a tragedy if there came to be a time when only the crazed or fanatical were protected. Yet that is the danger we approach as year after year the violations of free speech accumulate uncorrected, as it becomes ever more clear that unpopular speakers at Harvard can expect to be harassed and intimidated, and that the university will neither seriously discipline the perpetrators nor invite the silenced speakers back. If students...