Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miller's lawyers tried to dig deeper: they argued that the First Amendment protects card burning as "symbolic speech," and they urged the court to apply Justice Holmes's famous dictum that mere words cannot be punished unless they create "a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." Miller & Co. insisted that burning a draft card endangers no one except the burner. The information on the card is already on file; moreover, another law makes it a crime to be in "willful nonpossession" of a draft...
...ITALY. Toughened by its 1964 slump, the Italian economy expanded last year (growth rate: 5.3%) with less inflation than it has had in years. The auto industry produced a record 1,366,000 cars; steel production increased by 8% while most European steelmakers were in decline. One danger is spending by local governments. Milan is the only major city with a balanced budget; in the Sicilian city of Messina (pop. 262,000), budgeted expenses exceeded revenues by a staggering...
...labor pressure with money and by sharing facilities. For example, if one hospital were struck, it might be able to resist worker demands by transferring many of its patients to another hospital and waiting out the strike. Of course this couldn't happen if all the hospitals were in danger of being struck simultaneously...
...danger, it turned out, was nonexistent. In this strident attack on the wartime sequestration, Allan R. Bosworth, 65, a retired U.S. Navy captain, points out that no Japanese American was ever accused of sabotage or treason in the continental U.S. Indeed, a large number of the internees volunteered for duty with a regiment composed solely of Nisei, and they set an enviable combat record in Italy. The regiment became the most decorated fighting unit in U.S. history...
...middle of the clash it was close enough to feel the reverberations. The Crimson, as a good rule, sticks to the safer sphere of team meets against other colleges, but on several occasions sends individuals into the big world of open meets where it, like anyone else, is in danger of being caught in politics...