Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first. By the end of last week, it had turned into a genuine crisis. Nearly 100,000 tons of uncollected garbage lay in noisome heaps on sidewalks and in doorways. Trash fires flared all over town. Rats rummaged through pyramidal piles of refuse. Public-health authorities, warning of the danger of typhoid and other diseases, proclaimed the city's first general health emergency since a 1931 polio epidemic...
...clamor of opposition can hardly be avoided in a democracy. But if the President tries to satisfy everyone, he may end up using power so sparingly that he will satisfy no one. "The danger is," says University of Chicago Political Scientist Morton Kaplan, "that we will now hold back too much out of fear of another Viet...
...recent Viet Cong attacks had trapped Mendelsohn in Saigon for the last ten days. Although "never in personal danger" while there, Mendelsohn said that he did "hear gunfire at all times of the day and woke up two or three times a night to the sound of explosions...
...plan to draw in expert help for a national talent search was the frankly apolitical motion of Independent George Olesen, a parting gesture toward progress as he left public life. Politics is back now. And beyond the immediate danger that Cambridge will not even consider hiring a superintendent from outside its ingrown system is the deeper threat that the Independents will take the easy course of becoming a mechanically anti-intellectual, regressive majority...
...that, Jean-Claude Killy has added a superb disdain for danger and an almost superhuman capacity for concentration. Nobody takes a slalom gate quite the way he does-hurtling round the pole with his body slung out sideways, almost parallel to the snow. Nobody else has quite mastered his avalement technique of accelerating on the downhill turns-rocking back on his haunches and thrusting his skis so far forward that he seems certain to fall. Few have the courage to ski, as he puts it, "toujours à mort." And few can match his mental approach to a race. "When...