Word: hazarding
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Collision Hazard. Building such a base on Aldabra would be an ecological disaster, said Britain's Royal Society of scientists in a memorandum to Defense Minister Denis Healey last May. Healey responded noncommittally, so the society mounted an eleven-man midsummer expedition to the island to prove its point...
...danger that any intensification of the war could prompt Chinese intervention has receded with the turmoil brought on by Peking's Proletarian Cultural Revolution, but it has not disappeared. As for increasing the bombing, there is a hazard that it would stir hope in the U.S. that a little more bombing will end the war-and thus pave the way for a later letdown and demands for peace at any price...
...Hall's big stage, a kind of block-long obstacle course with a jolting, linoleum-covered concrete floor. The three huge elevators that make up the sectional stage are so warped with age that they meet unevenly, varying as much as an inch in many spots. With that hazard, as well as puddles from a simulated April Showers, or droppings from camels in the Nativity pageant, or oil slick from a fleet of autos used to ferry the chorus onstage, the girls are lucky to land on their toes and not their backsides. On one occasion a Rockette slipped...
...season in the show. Fess Parker, who plays the title role, co-produces, and owns a 30% piece of Boone, is chafing in his buckskins because Ames pulled more fan mail last spring. In any case, Ames wants out of the noble-savage bit. "Television series are a great hazard," he explains. "The more successful the show, the more identified with the characters you become...
...should be dropped, since "the only answer that really sticks in a child's mind is the answer to a question that he asked or might ask of himself." Students should have to learn only those things that really interest them. This would not be much of a hazard, Holt suggests, since for most people, "the things we most need to learn are the things we most want to learn." He thinks schools "could well afford to throw out most of what we teach, because the children throw out almost all of it anyway." Holt would bring objects that...