Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sputniks he sent whirling into outer space aroused the U.S. giant to its danger as nothing else could have. President Eisenhower, throwing off the effects of a slight stroke, risked health and leadership to journey to Paris and rally NATO to new heart. The U.S.'s European allies brushed aside Russia's threatening letters, joined with the U.S. to face in new unity the psychological pressures built up by the Soviets' scientific breakthrough...
When Carter Burgess, Assistant Secretary of Defense for manpower got the offer of the job as president of Trans World Airlines a year ago, he told friends: "Opportunity and danger are very much alike." The opportuniy was obvious: he took over the nation's fourth larges air carrier at $65,00 a year (v. his $19,000 Government pay) with the goal of getting it our of the red. The danger: eccentric Howard Hughes. T.W.A's owner. a boss as hard to please as a psychiatrist...
...Working of the Alliance. "The strength of our alliance, freely concluded between independent nations, lies in our fundamental unity, in the face of the danger which threatens us. Thanks to this fundamental unity, we can overcome our difficulties and bring into harmony our individual points of view." The Secretary-General and the permanent representatives to NATO were instructed to insure effective consultation and, where necessary, to seek conciliation of policy disputes among members...
...heavy personal guard, consulting with his party's members behind barricaded walls. Though the North Korean Communists have kept building up their military strength, the South has been making something of an economic comeback with the help of about $300 million yearly in U.S. aid, but there is danger that the handout mentality is becoming endemic...
...gone up month after month for the biggest rise (2.5%) in five years, the Federal Reserve Board, under tough-minded Chairman William McChesney Martin, worked with grim determination to keep the economy from growing too big, too fast. Martin stumped the nation preaching "inflation, not deflation, is the real danger." To check all phases of the buying jag-a rise in industrial expansion, piling up of business inventories and increases in consumer purchasing-the Fed squeezed tight on the nation's credit supply. As the demand for money kept rising, interest rates rose to the highest point since...