Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anticipating Nasser's propagandists, Bourguiba said defiantly: "Yes, I am Western, and I will remain so." Tunisia's pro-Western policy, he said, "has enabled us to avoid many troubles." Nasser, he declared, is "not aware of the danger of Communism. Once the Iron Curtain drops, there is no escape...
After his own countrymen repudiated him by voting for De Gaulle's constitution, Harbi was in danger of being removed from office. He fell back on the favorite strategy of desperate Somali politicians-exploiting the bloody rivalry between the Somalis and the nomadic Dana-kils who make up nearly half the population. When a Somali or a Danakil decides to do an enemy in, he usually seals his victory by castrating his victim...
...recession showed clearly that credit is not the great danger to the economy that many people thought it was. After six months of declining, consumer credit turned around in August as people switched to buying more than they paid off. In effect, many a consumer wisely used the recession to pay off debts-and now is in shape to step up buying again...
...world, there is nothing like the moon. It is, in effect, a superbly preserved relic of the early days of the solar system, sealed off by space and time from contamination by the germs, clouds, and forms of living matter that have developed on the earth. The danger is, reported the council's Committee on Contamination by Extra-Terrestrial Exploration (CETEX), that heedless exploration efforts may contaminate the moon before it can be properly studied in its virgin state...
...contrast, there was a disturbing report about danger from an object hitherto generally considered harmless: the wristwatch. Drs. Grafton D. Chase and Arthur Osol of Philadelphia's College of Pharmacy and Science tested 20 watches with luminous dials, found that some put out five to ten milliroentgens an hour one inch from their shining little faces. This, they say in Science, is several times greater than the natural background radiation from cosmic rays and the earth's crust, more than 100 times that received from bomb-test fallout to date...