Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasons for opposing the mass gatherings, von Stade cited the chance for injury caused by firecrackers, thrown bottles, and other missiles, and the danger of fire in the dormitories...
Under the right conditions, some good could undoubtedly emerge from a summit meeting. An agreement on disarmament, on space control, and on the Middle East would go far towards reducing the danger of open conflict and healing many sore spots of American foreign and domestic policy. But until an atmosphere and fundamental agreement conducive to further negotiation appears, no amount of discussion, however earnest and diplomatic, will result in any significant solution...
Carbon 14. As that uproar quieted, Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling, 57, head of the chemical labs at the California Institute of Technology, made headlines with his newest point: the most dangerous element of nuclear-test fallout over a period of five to 10,000 years is not strontium 90 but carbon 14, a low-radioactivity but long-lived (half-life: 5,568 years) isotope that from tests already held will, said Pauling, cause 5,000,000 defective children in the next 300 generations. Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby, one of the world's top authorities on carbon...
Then in the U.N., Lodge stated the case: "Our flights are a necessary defensive measure against massive surprise attack, and it follows, therefore, that if the danger of such attack were removed, the need for this defense could be correspondingly lessened . . . Let us attack the cause of the Soviet concerns-not their symptoms." The U.S. proposal: the prompt establishment of a northern zone of inspection against surprise attack...
...thumb of Red China, where he once took refuge for three years. Last week, after abruptly refusing to attend the King's parley, Singh let loose with an anti-U.S., anti-British diatribe. Three months in office, stormed Singh, had convinced him that "Nepal is under imminent danger to her sovereignty and independence at the hands of British and American people in Nepal...