Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advertisement elsewhere in this issue, entitled "The truth about atomic hazards," sponsored by the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, it is stated that radiation is the least important aftermath of an atom bomb explosion, as regards danger to humans, and that "only 15% of the deaths at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were caused by radiation . . . No significant amount of radiation appeared to linger after the explosions...
...While the danger of war is vivid, partly because of these crises, I am certain we shall stand by our arms. But if this cold war becomes a war of boredom where the danger is shrewdly concealed, then our resolution may be tested by our willingness to maintain arms. If we fall victim to boredom and risk curtailment of our armed strength, we shall destroy the world's only sturdy barricade against the danger of aggression...
...also the result of industrial fumes collecting in the motionless, humid air. Said he, bitterly: "It's plain murder." The zinc smeltery shut down. At week's end, the cause of the trouble "was still unknown. But rain had stirred the fog and apparently ended the danger...
With the fall of Mukden the Chinese Communists have completed their conquest of Manchuria. North China as far south as the Yangtze is in danger of falling under their control. On the economic side, Chiang Kai-shek's government has removed price controls and with them has vanished all hope for its economic reforms. The resulting inflation is destroying the newly-issued money for which the middle class was forced to sacrifice its holdings of gold and foreign currency. With the Republican defeat in the U.S. election discouraging Knomintang expectations for increased military aid, the Nationalist Cabinet has resigned...
...decline of conservative power does not date from November 2, 1948. Republican moderates defeated the right wing in the GOP summer convention, most notably when Charles Halleck was rejected as the Vice-Presidential nominee. And although the Senate was in grave danger-according to pre-Tuesday views--Governor Dewey refused to support reactionary Senator Chapman Revercomb in the West Virginia race...