Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mediterranean this week was the greatest concentration of U.S. armed might ever assembled in peacetime. In a historic show of land, sea and air power, the U.S. had moved swiftly to answer the cries for help from the friendly government of a small nation-Lebanon-that stood in imminent danger of overthrow from subversion. Of itself, the show of strength rocked the Communists, who count on subversion to win the cold war, provoked Moscow's Khrushchev into a demand for a summit conference (see below) and titillated him into a threat of nuclear rocket retaliation. Moreover, it thrust...
Throughout our history one of the great strengths of the United States in the world has been that it could depend upon the support that lies in the decent opinion of mankind. Today we are plainly in danger of losing esteem...
...overheated Middle East took fire: pro-Nasser army officers overthrew Iraq's pro-Western monarchy, and within 40 hours U.S. marines moved into Lebanon. The absentee arsonist looked with an appraising eye on international wind and weather; given an unexpected change, his own house might be in danger of going up in the conflagration. For 72 hours the world assumed Nasser was still aboard the yacht, but not a word was heard from him. Then his official Middle East News Agency put out a terse summary of his surprising change of itinerary...
...Bayne-Jones committee grasped unflinchingly the prickly questions of how good a job the Government agencies are doing and whether there is a danger in letting Big Government get a still bigger role in research. (Its share of costs has zoomed from 32% to more than 50% in ten years.) On the first score the committee concluded: NIH has done a generally excellent job; its system of making grants to universities and independent medical schools and research groups (TIME, Nov. 18) has avoided "the twin dangers of bureaucratic interference with science, leading to loss of freedom by scientists and universities...
...America, Christianity faces the danger of becoming a utilitarian faith, a faith that is practiced for the sake of getting something here and now," said Yale University's H. Richard Niebuhr, professor of theology, in a lecture at the University of Michigan. A utilitarian faith, declared Theologian Niebuhr (brother of Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr), is "the kind that says it is a good thing to believe in God because it will make you prosperous. A utilitarian faith takes the form of mental health. It allays anxiety. It makes you feel as you feel when you've had a good...