Word: hazarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Engelhardt and his fellow legislators had overlooked an important point: if the heavy Negro population of Tuskegee and surrounding Macon County provides a political hazard, it also provides the principal economic income of Tuskegee's merchants. In the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church last week, a stomping, whistling crowd of 2,900 Negroes heard Professor Charles G. Gomillion, 57, dean of students at the institute and president of the Tuskegee Civic Association, lay out a strategy for fighting back without violence. "We will buy goods and services only from those who will recognize us as first-class citizens." Then...
After the birth of 50-lb. Ebola, father Dolo was removed as an unnecessary hazard, and the news of the birth was kept from the public to avoid a rush of photographers. Now the worst is over. Mother Irumu suckles her baby three times a day with undeviated maternalism, but refuses if humans are near. Ebola has grown like a weed, more than doubling her weight in three weeks. Assistant Director Vullier, watching fondly, says: "We think we have saved little Ebola, but of course with animals one never knows...
...tempted to ask for a demurrer, i.e., to plead that even if the plaintiff's arguments were correct, there was no legal cause of action. Then he routed the plaintiff in a straight legal battle. Out of this victory came the first of many sonorous Coke maxims: "[Never] hazard the matter upon a demurrer...
...almost 8,000 ft. up, one flame trail lengthened, turned orange, mingled with ominous black smoke. The missile lurched to one side, straightened out, began to drop away, spewing metal shards. The trouble: one engine had lost power, thrown the Bird out of kilter, made the missile a safety hazard. On Cape Canaveral test officers quickly reacted, exploded Atlas by remote control. The missile crashed with a thud into the surf only a few miles from its launching site...
...crusty Painter Gilbert Stuart, and by Charles Willson Peale, who did the study of phlegmatic-looking John Lowell of the Boston Lowells, member of the Continental Congress and a U.S. judge. Many of the miniatures, and not the worst, went unsigned, like the deft portrait of youthful Navyman Oliver Hazard Perry. A miniaturist celebrated in other fields was Robert Fulton, who painted Perry's wife, but went on to make the first successful steamboat...