Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...represents the only centripetal force. The country is troubled, the opposition divided. The rational course is to play it safe, to bet that self-preservation?just staying together as a party?will be nine-tenths of victory. It is, after all, an election in which the incumbents are in danger simply because they are incumbents. Nixon's choice of the factionally neutral Spiro Agnew as running mate was part of that strategy...
Growing Hobby. Collision danger, to be sure, is still remote, but Roth figures that precaution is called for. Five years ago, as head of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Denver Moonwatch Team, he became interested in the problems of satellite reentry. To help scientists predict the debris' drop more precisely, he organized flight crews into the Voluntary Flight Officer Network and asked them to report all satellite sightings...
What the hemophiliac's blood lacks, because of a genetic defect transmitted from mother to son, is a clotting protein known as antihemophilic factor (AHF) or globulin (AHG), also called Factor VIII. Because of this deficiency, the hemophilia victim lives in constant danger of severe bleeding from the most minor wound, such as a finger cut or a tooth extraction. Even with no external injury, he may bleed internally after a bump or a stumble. This is especially likely to happen inside his joints, causing arthritis with progressive deformity and disability...
Speaking at a press conference in Los Angeles, McCarthy said the "presence of large numbers of supporters may well add to the danger of violence" already present in Chicago...
...claimed to have supplied Stonewall Jackson with information that led to a victory at Front Royal. She was a nurse, a courier, a smuggler of currency and, the reader suspects, a pest to both sides. Her several imprisonments were presumably more the result of impudence than real danger to the Union. After the war, she toured the lecture circuit as "the Rebel spy," giving dramatic readings of her "perilous" experiences. In 1900, still lecturing, Belle Boyd died and was buried in Wisconsin, far behind the enemy lines...