Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unfortunate that great progress cannot be immediately reported. But delay is preferable to error in such vital matters. We can "compromise" within the boundaries of a principle. We can no longer compromise principles themselves. That becomes "appeasement," and appeasement only multiplies the hazard from which it seeks escape. History leaves no room for doubt upon that score. The wrong answers will breed wars for tomorrow...
Said Hoover in his report on India: "Most districts are on the edge of a precipice. It is impossible to hazard what the death toll might...
...same pie from which William Benton's postwar information plan for the State Department was sliced (TIME, Jan. 28). Benton's proposals were far milder. Last week, news tycoons found the pie unpalatable. Publisher John S. Knight (Chicago Daily News, Miami Herald, etc.) called it "a hazard to free reporting," a long step toward a U.S. or U.N. dominated press. Said U.P. President Hugh Baillie (whose outfit, along with A.P., the report roundly rapped for refusing to Jet the State" Department broadcast their news abroad in peacetime): "I cannot think of a speedier way for the press...
...complicated nonslip brassiere to eliminate a hazard for bosomy golfers...
...Maxwell Anderson-Truckline Café fracas seems a bit cavalier on the surface, since Mr. Gibbs's published New Yorker version is worded quite differently from TIME'S. Realizing, however that TIME had no chance for a gander at the forthcoming New Yorker review, I hazard the following free translation of the probable situation...