Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been bothered lately by the tooth's roughness. Before the President went on vacation, White House Dentist Lieut. Colonel James Fairchild checked and found the molar split. It was not painful, but there was danger of infection. Fairchild's decision: extraction. As a precaution against excessive bleeding, Ike was taken off the anticoagulant he gets six times a week as a part of his heart therapy. Armed with X rays, Colonel Robert B. Shira, head of Walter Reed's oral-surgery section, yanked the tooth, sent him on his way in 15 minutes...
Last week Indonesia, racked by civil war, was in dire danger of splintering apart. Guns cracked in the jungles of West Java; government bombers winged over Pakanbaru in Sumatra and Menado in the Celebes, blasting radio transmitters and telephone exchanges; government patrol boats, cleared for action, blockaded rebel-held ports...
...Black Statistic. The looming crisis of confidence was a serious challenge to Administration leadership: the great economic danger was that crumbling confidence might still further shrink buying and investing, and so turn a dip into a more severe recession. Confronted with this challenge, Dwight Eisenhower and four of the Government's top economic-policy shapers huddled in the President's White House office one afternoon last week. Present besides Ike: Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., Economic Advisers Chairman Raymond Saulnier, Presidential Economics Assistant Gabriel Hauge. They knew that next...
...Negroes also vote-and in this respect, says a member of Philadelphia's Commission on Human Relations, "the danger is that it may be to the advantage of politically shrewd Negroes and white politicians to keep the Negro segregated, and to use him as a balance of power...
...German dive bombers roared off into the sky, and the stocky young woman-one of countless uprooted victims of the Nazi armies advancing into France-scrambled out of the ditch. Said calm Mathilde Carré to a companion: "There's almost a sensual pleasure in real danger, don't you think? Your whole body seems suddenly to come alive...