Word: hazarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present site back in 1770, and built a grist mill near by. According to local legend, he also suggested the circular-street plan upon which the village is built, although he sold out (1,643 acres for $4,000) long before 1814, when Perryopolis, named for Naval Hero Oliver Hazard Perry, was actually begun...
...Providence, Rhode Island's Governor Dennis J. Roberts signed a proclamation gratefully accepting 14,000 cherry-tree seeds from the Japanese government in commemoration of Rhode Islander Oliver Hazard Perry's historic trip to Japan 100 years ago. Then the embarrassed Statehouse was briefed on a few facts that every schoolboy should know: 1) Oliver, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie, was already dead 100 years ago; 2) his brother, Commodore Matthew Perry, made the historic trip! 3) Matthew went ashore on July...
...policies toward Chiang in June 1950, when the Korean war began. In one sense it did: by ordering the Seventh Fleet to patrol the Formosa straits, and by sending Chiang a new batch of U.S. military advisers, Harry Truman recognized that a Communist Formosa would be a military hazard at the rear of the U.N. forces in Korea...
...newly photographed ultraviolet waves will be a major hazard for future space pilots in flights above the atmosphere. Human tissue, developed beneath the sheltering air blanket, will probably be injured by ultraviolet unless well protected. "I'd hate to be up there for an hour," said Dr. Howard Edwards, who worked on the project. "In fact, I'd hate to be up there...
Your historical note on President William Harrison [TIME, Jan. 12], who died after reading his inaugural address bareheaded in the rain, recalls that the tradition of baring the head has long been a hazard to men in public life. F.D.R. was laid low for several days following his election because he held his hat in salute to the crowds during most of the motor trip down from Hyde Park. In 1941 he was again incapacitated by one of his few illnesses after he stood for an hour bareheaded during Armistice Day ceremonies. King George V contracted his final illness...