Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That war brought, perhaps, the greatest wave of patriotism in U.S. history. Fix the hour at 6 p.m., Dec. 7, 1941. It was an hour of intense feeling for country, outrage at the shedding of American blood, a sense of common danger, resolve to defeat the enemy. A people that had been divided hours before was mobilized by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; millions shifted from self-interest to self-sacrifice. In the wake of World War II cams a subtle and complex act of patriotism, the Marshall Plan, embodying not only the best of American ideals but also...
...also intends to maintain some sort of control over the Sinai Peninsu la-which, Eshkol suggested, might be turned into a huge demilitarized zone partly policed by Israeli troops. The city of Jerusalem would remain Israeli at all costs, he said. As a divided city, it was "a security danger and an economic absurdity...
What counts more right now, however, is what public TV will do with the money it gets. There is no danger that it will put commercial television out of business. But there is enough viewer weariness with standard TV to suggest that the noncommercial brand should find a receptive audience. And it may even come to pass that competition from successful public TV will force the commercial networks to improve their product...
Based on a 1963 television drama by Nicholas E. Baehr, The Incident is a taut, disturbing drama that tries to clarify why men fail to help each other in times of stress and danger. Unquestionably, the passengers could have saved themselves; any one of them might have got off to summon help before the thugs thought to block the doors, or at least yanked the emergency cord. Nobody does, because the paralysis of fear has linked them all. The eventual resolution is placed in the hands of the one person least caught up in the life of the jungle...
Only John A. P. Good, who joined the Committee in January and has been under frequent fire from Duehay for "cronyism," is in danger of being unseated. Good now stands in sixth place, with 2355 votes, about 300 more than his closest rival, George J. Fanfani...