Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article concerning returning vets [Jan. 12], I was deeply ashamed of my country and fellow citizens. A nation that can afford to ignore and reject the people who defend it is marked by hypocrisy and decay. No government project can compensate completely. The gratitude for the personal sacrifice and danger these men endured must come from the people...
...popular reaction was: "Any man who would take his wife into a situation like that is plain stupid." Percy protests that his wife invariably travels abroad with him and produces politically useful movies of his adventures. Besides, says he, "it never entered my head that there was any undue danger...
Bureaucratic Bog-Down. "It's only going to get worse," predicts Tripp. "As the population increases, people are living closer to danger spots-closer to rivers that flood, the edges of islands on the hurricane path, spreading to places not suitable for building, like the favelas on the mountainsides of Rio de Janeiro." Because of Latin America's predilection for disaster, Tripp has stockpiled supplies in Panama for quick transit to the area. "We try to act within the first 24 to 72 hours," he says, realizing that the major diplomatic impact-not to mention the humanitarian aspects...
...wasting up to ten minutes per customer explaining the rules of each new game. Adding to the attendants' frustration, many drivers have taken to driving into station after station for a token gallon of gas while picking up more game chances. "America's service stations stand in danger of becoming one enormous coast-to-coast casino," warns E. D. Brockett, chairman of Gulf Oil Corp., one of the few major oil companies to abstain from the games. "Costs will rise and service will suffer," says Brockett, who foresees the day when motorists will say, "Fill her up, check...
...accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish some purpose, not in itself criminal or unlawful, by criminal or unlawful means." The concept of criminal conspiracy is rooted deep in common law; its philosophical underpinning is the premise that two or more men working together are a greater danger to society than an individual plotting alone. Today conspiracy by itself is a crime under federal law and in virtually every state. Ordinarily, it is not even necessary for the ultimate act contemplated in the conspiracy to be accomplished...