Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line on summit talks, too. One day last week the Kremlin's Khrushchev sent a bitter letter to President Eisenhower rejecting the U.S.'s latest offer to begin joint technical studies on disarmament, adding a new attack on nuclear tests "causing an ever-present and ever-mounting danger to the health and life of the people . . . from radiation hazards." President Eisenhower prodded right back that K. really ought to begin technical studies: "I am unhappy that valuable time is now being wasted...
...secret peepholes and closed-circuit TV help spot the heisters, but eat up the labor savings of self-service merchandising. Nor is a shoplifter spotted necessarily a shoplifter stopped. Grocers run the risk of being sued for false arrest if they cannot find stolen merchandise. More unsettling is the danger of creating a Gestapo atmosphere in a store where impulse buying is basic to sales...
Professor Arthur Smithies, who said that monetary policy was "possibly in danger of being crushed by the Harris-Galbraith steamroller," nevertheless agreed with Professor Harris that a rapid introduction of long-run spending programs and more liberal unemployment measures were urgently needed...
Willard Midgette's woodcuts were chosen in the graphics category. The woodcut is a difficult medium as far as achieving any degree of subtlety is concerned, and Midgette handles it well. The woodcutter always faces the danger of producing a stereotype, and although Midgette's work suffers in this respect it also reflects a surety and precision which is highly personal...
...covered, 10-ft.-long painting (weight: more than 500 Ibs.) from its temporary wooden frame, cover it with paper and tarpaulin against smoke and water stains and lug it to safety. To the credit of the museum staff, who struggled through smoke and water to carry paintings out of danger, only nine paintings out of a total of over 2,000 worth more than $4,000,000 were destroyed or damaged...