Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Kennan in the Reith Lectures on the BBC in London, will eventually make war inevitable. "I am not particularly concerned to learn whether our Soviet friends could, if they wished, destroy us. seven times over or only four times; nor do I think that the answer to this danger lies in the indefinite multiplication of our own present ability to do fearful injury to them. Our problem is no longer to prevent people from acquiring the ability to destroy us; it is too late for that. Our problem is to see that they do not have the will...
...Yale Health Department had announced that students consuming three or four glasses of milk per meal run a definite risk of contracting kidney stones. However, the Harvard man, with his lower consumption, is below the "danger line...
Probably the most important factor that could militate against a Crimson win tonight is the insidious psychological danger of overconfidence. Last year, under somewhat similar circumstances, an undaunted Northeastern five ignored the press notices and irreverently dumped the varsity...
...saturation point with posters designed to incite; of the populace abandoned to discussion and mental struggles, to screaming and tumult." It made a horrifying picture, but Venezuela's dictator was able to reassure his own people last week that they, at any rate, were in no great danger of free political discussion and debate. Instead, he energetically pressed his own no-party, me-or-nothing version of an election: a plebiscite...
...stand it." The McCormicks decided that they would indeed send Kelly Jean to school-but not to any ordinary one. Their adopted son Jimmy, who also had an IQ of 147, had been so bored in public school that he had flubbed his studies, made constant mischief, was in danger of becoming a painfully shy neurotic until his parents placed him in a stiff private school geared to the superior student...