Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Until last week, the crisis seemed to be a problem that agitated the professionals more than it bothered ordinary citizens, who accepted the thesis that, after all, Khrushchev really did not want war. Now, through the drama of his personal insolence to Macmillan, Khrushchev had communicated a sense of danger and urgency to the situation by suggesting that his cockiness may be prevailing over his shrewdness...
...danger of hitching your reputation to scholarship is that once you build a research factory, you cannot readily convert your vast plan to the production of educated alumni. For if scholarship is to be anything, it must be cosmopolitan. The scholar must therefore speak to a national or international audience, not to the local parish. Such an audience naturally focusses his first loyalty in the universal "discipline," rather than on his employer, the local university. Moreover, his prestige with this national audience is primarily determined by what he himself produces, secondarily by what his departmental colleagues produce, and hardly...
...take account of the facts could reason this way. Soviet forces are stationed in East Germany, and they are not there to play skittles . . . We advise all those who are trying to rattle their sabers: If you feel nervous, take a cold shower and calm down. Otherwise there is danger to peace...
...Balalis, wearing leaves in their hair, retaliated by setting whole blocks of M'Boshi shanties on fire. The official estimate of the number of dead was 98, but bodies, mutilated, decaying or bloated, continued to turn up. The occasional white resident who happened to wander into the danger zone was politely told to keep...
...intense that the most potent narcotics will not relieve it. One approach has been to cut white nerve bundles in the front part of the brain (lobotomy or leucotomy). This makes many victims better able to tolerate their pain, even though its actual intensity may not be reduced. Greatest danger: an overall dulling of the personality. More radical but also more logical is an attack through the thalamus, part of the central nervous system which relays many pain impulses to the higher perception centers. Biggest drawback: the thalamus, tucked away in the middle of the skull, is hard...