Word: hazardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then came the meteorological kink that turned humdrum Carol into a raging hazard by leading her toward shore. It was a deep wave in the planetary wind, part of a disturbance that had been detected while still over the Pacific more than a week before. By 3 a.m. Tuesday morning, the wind was headed toward the north, carrying Carol at 35 to 40 m.p.h. toward Long Island. Warnings went out at once, but most people along the endangered coast had gone to bed unworried, confident that Carol would pass them by. Instead, she churned destructively across southeastern New England, destroying...
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...been looked upon as ideal-such weapons as X ray or radium therapy work with an undiscriminating shotgun effect on growing tissues, healthy as well as diseased. (These techniques do not work when the disease is advanced and widespread.) But many authorities have held that chemicals, too, would prove hazardous. Sloan-Kettering's preliminary findings with rats and mice suggest that the hazard may be overcome, but the crucial test is still to come-the testing of these and other compounds on transplanted human cancers in rats and mice (TIME, April 20, 1953). The results so far, said...
...Corps commission; he walked out of the exam hall and never went back. In France his company of the 6th Marines suffered more casualties than any other American outfit (131 men killed, 491 wounded). He was wounded seven times. It was, he said dryly, "a life of hardship and hazard," but he wanted no other. He liked the work: fighting...
Scholastically, the Class slowly came into its own with the announcement that 81 had passed the entrance examinations with high honors and that the Harvard Club of Boston had awarded scholarships to W. C. Goodwin, David Guarnaccia, W. G. Hazard, J. F. Ryan, and Marshall Schalk...