Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Financially, Humphrey felt the polls had hurt him. He remarked several times that he received fewer donations at the outset of his campaign because the polls had marked him with the stigma of defeat. A more direct danger, however, is that polls can be deliberately manipulated by office holders and office seekers alike to influence public opinion...
While this explanation seemed satisfactory, Rep. John Moss (D-Calif.) saw danger in the nation's two chief pollsters collaborating on a joint statement. He submitted a bill to the House of Representatives which provided for the establishment of a Committee on Public Opinion Polls to look into all aspects of the problem...
...something was bound to happen." Tony Boyle, president of the United Mine Workers lo cal, demurred. "This happens to be one of the better companies as far as safety is concerned," he said. "I share the grief. But as long as we mine coal, there is always this inherent danger of explosion." For relatives of the missing miners, huddled in their parked pickup trucks or on folding chairs in the grimy company store, that was scant comfort...
...contact sport, the danger of injury is always present. In football, sooner or later, everyone gets hurt-and more often than not, he gets hurt in the knee. Obviously, the football player's knee is crucial. It must function perfectly to permit all the feinting, cutting, spinning, twisting, blocking, running and tackling that are the basic elements of his increasingly violent trade...
...after that, their voyages sounded like something out of Herman Melville. The trip to the whaling grounds took a tedious four weeks. The seas were awesome and the food terrible. Even seasoned sailors were sick much of the time. Once the hunt began, they had to face not only danger from harpooned whales but also the nauseating stench of whale processing. The returns, though, made it all worthwhile. In a good year, Sandefjord's seamen earned more in six months than a landlubber could in a year. The other six months they spent working their gardens and painting their...