Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algeria, Germany and the provinces. To a stonily unresponsive Assembly, Premier Gaillard declared: "It is said that the republican regime has been shaken to its foundation. This is not true. The Republic is much more firmly rooted in the hearts of Frenchmen than many pretend to believe. The only danger which threatens the Republic is the disunity of the republicans themselves and particularly of the republican majority of this Assembly which should permit the government to face up to the realities confronting...
Technicians deployed their Geiger counters to check the level of radioactivity. Report: no danger. Reason: nuclear bombs have been painstakingly designed so that they cannot function unless they go through a complex arming process, and the Air Force is not likely to fly with armed nuclear bombs this side of the Iron Curtain or the Pole...
...acute concern was Indonesia. If the Communists capture Indonesia politically, Communism will have leapfrogged the SEATO line of defense on the Asian mainland. But Dulles was anxious to avoid any charge of SEATO interference in Indonesia's affairs. The final communique only stated pointedly that "there was particular danger arising from some non-Communist governments failing to distinguish between the aims and ideals of the free world and the purposes of international Communism...
...stolid, austere Amish farmfolk of central Ohio, education beyond the eighth grade is a waste and a danger; it is enough that a child learn to read, write and cipher. This stubbornly held tenet of their strict, old-fashioned sect runs squarely into an Ohio law requiring children to remain in school until they are 16. From time to time in Amish country, parents have been prosecuted for violating the law, but more often, tolerant school boards ignore the Amish boycott of high schools, or make senseless obeisance to the law's letter by letting Amish schoolchildren repeat...
...COLLISION DANGER is diminishing. CAB reports that near misses of aircraft in flight averaged 1.4 per day in last quarter of 1957 v. 3.6 in first quarter. Reason: at urging of Government and pilots' union, more pilots are flying on instruments in good as well as bad weather...