Word: hazardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pinpointed especially were the most threatened of New York's 34,000 acres of park, 725 playgrounds, 17 swimming pools and 18 miles of sandy, sunny beach as well as 14 "high hazard" slum areas, where more than 100 organized gangs prowl the streets. To these potential trouble points went 700 extra police in uniform or plainclothes, on foot or in radio cruisers, trained and ready to study the faces of an uncertain generation and to move in hard and fast on its rebels...
...York a battle of philosophies whose outcome may have as lasting effects on the city as the war of the streets. Kennedy's use-force orders draw cries of protest from social scientists. They point to increasing arrest rates in the 14 heavily policed high-hazard slum areas, where social agencies thought they had made headway with a gentler approach toward juveniles. And they vehemently disapprove of Kennedy's decision on the proper function of the police department's Juvenile Aid Bureau...
Nelson was born in 1758, at a time when Dr. Samuel Johnson could see little difference between life at sea and life in prison, except that at sea there was the added hazard of drowning. Yet Nelson, a parson's sickly son, lived to cast an aura of gaiety and gallantry over the squalid business of being a ship's officer. He was a prudent sailor, a superb professional in the chancy matters of wind, tide, hemp, oak, canvas and gunpowder, at a time when a man-o'-war was a floating firecracker rather than a seagoing...
...fully effective. While they do put more planes under ground control, they also increase the strain on the already overworked CAA with its outmoded system. And the big jets will only increase the pressure. Said CAAdministrator James T. Pyle: "The public must realize that we cannot eliminate the collision hazard until we fully implement our Federal airways plan, and this is in the order of four years or more. We're not ready because people didn't start five or ten years ago to get ready...
...enterprising Philadelphia small fry, the strike was a bonanza of sorts. They bought up piles of the papers at 5? a copy in the downtown offices, hawked them in the suburbs for as much as 15? each. But some ran into a hazard undreamed of in their teen-age philosophy. Striking Teamsters intercepted them, took their papers and dumped the bundles into the murky waters of the Schuylkill River...