Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sees it, the soft green leaf may well be a nettle in disguise, and danger lurks on all sides. It is hard to trust people-"If they slap me on the back, maybe the next time they slap me they'll have a knife." On the other hand, so few people are really grateful to him: "It's not that I need credit. But somewhere along the line the dog should be patted on the head." If some neighborhood toughs honk their horns outside his house to annoy him, he speaks of being "hounded by degenerates...
...said he, "that a [summit] meeting held under proper [U.N.] auspices would, on the one hand, dispel the false allegations that there is aggression being carried on by the U.S. or by the United Kingdom in the Middle East. It would, on the other hand, I think, show the danger of indirect aggression, which has been so often condemned by the U.N. Thereby it might tend to stabilize the political situation which in turn would make it easier to develop economic programs for the benefit of the people . . . There is no use getting into the details of economic projects...
...Volunteers. Was Nasser still worried that next time Moscow might send him unwanted "Moslem volunteers," Communist troops he would have a hard time getting rid of? The onrush of events had momentarily been stalled, but agitation everywhere continued, and nothing had been solved. Jordan was one sign of the danger. Should the British go home, leave Hussein to be ousted by Nasserites? In such a case Israel, its existence threatened as never before, might even take military action. British troops were thus holding the peace while accused of spreading war. Rather than accept a third Arab-Israeli war with...
...economy picked up some speed last week, but there were still rough spots on the road to recovery, and enough danger signs in rising prices to warn that excessive speed could mean renewed inflation. Items...
AMERICAN industry should find it -L. an opportunity rather than a danger. Do not be afraid of it." Thus did Washington Lawyer and Economist George Ball, an expert on investment abroad, exhort U.S. businessmen to take on a new challenge: the European Common Market. The common market, a vast trading zone of six European countries, will remove trade barriers among participating nations, allow free movement of goods, labor and capital. What worries many a U.S. businessman is that it will also be protected by tariffs that discriminate against outsiders, make it harder for U.S. firms to compete in Europe...