Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life style the Law School has supported may be beyond saving, even by men of such enormous persuasive powers as the Law Faculty. But the Law School as a distinguished and productive institution is not in danger--unless the faculty decides to take it and themselves down with the ship of an outdated social structure...
...depth and danger of campus disorder was brought home to Americans by the photographs a few weeks ago of rifle-carrying black militants at Cornell -an event that may have been the turning point after considerable national tolerance toward the radicals. Those who evolved the technique of confrontation into a frighteningly effective weapon are now themselves confronted-by angry government officials, the courts, an increasing number of resolute college administrators and even by exasperated fellow students. The crucial question is whether the reaction has come soon enough, and whether it will take the proper form. If it does not, higher...
...should also be the obstetrician's responsibility, added Adamsons, to minimize the danger that the baby will be deprived of oxygen during labor and delivery. At present, he said, 20% to 25% of all U.S. babies suffer some oxygen deficiency during birth; 3% to 4% are "severely afflicted" and may develop cerebral palsy or other handicaps...
...danger of this kind of liberal crusade is that it might work. Then we'll have more efficient channelling of ghetto children into vocational high schools and onto the working class, Harvard men will still be the elite, reaping even greater rewards from the more efficient system, the rich will be richer, the gap will be greater...
...from head-on collisions with fixed objects along the highway. Its principle is well known to operators of beach buggies: soft sand slows a vehicle down. In this system, large plastic drums of sand are grouped in front of bridge abutments, overpass piers, large sign stanchions and similar highway danger points. The drums break when hit by a speeding vehicle, absorbing much of the impact and scattering sand beneath the wheels to slow it further. Cheap and easy to install and replace, the Inertial Barrier System was invented by John Fitch, a former racing driver whose teammate accidentally killed himself...