Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students have been drafted out of schools this year. The danger of the draft, rather than actual induction, has convinced students not to enroll. Even if called for induction, though, most graduate students should be granted a postponement until the end of the semester, according to recent directions from Selective Service director Lieut. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey...
Ruling Style. Yet Caetano must walk a delicate line. He is probably in more danger from the right than from the splintered left. Portugal's great landowners and ultra-conservatives have a tendency toward panic, and if they thought Caetano were slipping even fractionally leftward, they might appeal to their army allies to intervene...
...That danger is a long shot indeed. Apollo's engine has been checked countless times in flight and on the ground. At the slightest hint of trouble, the mission could be safely aborted at any of a dozen points along the way. Even as Apollo nears the moon, the astronauts will still be able to make a "nogo" decision. Should the spacecraft fail to be slowed down as planned, it can simply make a high-speed loop of the moon and head back toward earth...
Though disappointing, Anti-Memoirs is a remarkable cultural confection, especially for readers armed with some prior knowledge of Malraux and France, not to mention a tolerance for offhand allusions to everything from Vishnu to Vichy water. Its most accessible elements are brief recollections of personal danger, each spiced with the author's sense of fate and history. Such incidents were chosen because they brought Malraux, the man of action, face to face with death-and the limitations of human courage-just as his lifetime has brought him face to face with the limitations of the revolutionary aims that...
...April 8, 1966). More Bligh than blithe, even on festive occasions Cook had a provincial prudishness about prurient talk, though he showed a fondness for admiring native women through his telescope. He insisted that his men wash, but he forbade them to pray (especially when the ship was in danger, as she often was) for fear that prayer would rob them of the will to work...