Word: dangerously
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Aided by his knowledge of Portuguese, which he gained as a child when missionaries took him to a city for treatment of tuberculosis, Davi has helped alert the world to outside threats to the Yanomami culture. The chief danger has come from gold miners, who have polluted Amazonian rivers with deadly mercury. Backed by London's Rainforest Foundation, Davi has formed alliances with indigenous leaders and environmentalists all over the world...
...lived a life of high danger, but he refused to leave politics," Steiner said. "He was always accompanied by bodyguards...
...thought rioting was a thing of another time and another place. I could tell much more of this story, to show how marked the contrast was between the days of the festival, but nothing can begin to describe to you how it feels to actually have your life in danger, and what happens when you shut down...
John Jr.'s death will only heighten the memories of the Kennedy years in the presidency, the core of the legend, years when the cold war was at its most intense and there was danger in the world, years when bright young men and women flocked to Washington to take part in the New Frontier. I remember Dallas, but I still don't begin to comprehend it. I heard the shots from the motorcade and then wandered on the lawn of Parkland Hospital throughout that afternoon as the bulletins confirmed the death of a President. So much had ended...
...appointed for life by a closed group of clergy, he still depends to some extent on the illusion of popular consent. "Electoral defeats are deeply troubling to the conservatives," says Dowell. "And as veterans of a revolution that overthrew the autocratic shah, they are well aware of the danger of pushing too far against the will of the people...