Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hitch realized that political threats were the real danger in the Regents' plan. And Reagan's reply to Hitch's practical appeal showed the political threats in their most venomous form. Hitch might have hoped that Reagan would argue on the same administrative-efficiency terms. Not a chance. Reagan bluntly admitted that the plan was a political tool. The Regents thought that the chancellors had appointed too many liberals, he said. It was time for the Regents to "intervene and put a little balance back into the picture...
...Nice Road But. To avoid the Intruder, planes travel 20 miles to another beacon erected in a treetop where they hover in holding patterns. Here the danger is perhaps greater. Other planes from Gabon loaded with arms and ammunition also join the pattern; sometimes as many as 20 ships are circling simultaneously, some assigned the same altitudes by inexperienced Biafran ground controllers. The sight of fire-bright exhausts in the African night is slim comfort to other flyers. Says Swedish Pilot Ulf Engelbrecht: "If all the pilots some night were to turn on rotating beacons and clearance lights, a dozen...
...first swing of the sling. Astronaut McDivitt was forced to take refuge on the flotation collar when the wind flipped over his raft. McDivitt got a thorough soaking and dizzying spin before he was lifted safely aboard the helicopter. Although the astronauts were probably never in real danger, the recovery provided exciting counterpoint to Apollo 9's final days of routine space flight...
BANKING. Even more vigorously than Johnson, Nixon and his aides are campaigning against one-bank holding companies, which the bankers set up to diversify into other businesses. The Administration considers the bank-holding-company trend to be a significant danger and is moving toward legislation to curb...
...Clark works hard and reads intelligently (when he is given intelligent lines to read), but is unable to convey either age or weight. He, and Susan Yakutis, who performs more than creditably as Nell Gwynn, are perhaps the primary victims of the text's shortcomings. Often they seem in danger of choking on strings of quaint expletives. "Bloody" and "God's breath" got a good deal of special attention. The author's attention to the special diction of period and character is, in fact, generally insufficient...