Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hazard in that quarter-deck doctrine was that reactionary thinking in post-World War II might set in, not only among the battleship admirals (who actually were in retreat) but among the airmen. Men like Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, and even younger aviators like Rear Admiral Arthur Radford might become wedded to the carrier, which had spearheaded the war.* Not to be overlooked by prophets is the fact that after World War I the radicals thought the naval weapon of the future was the submarine. In 1913 amiable, conservative Admiral Richard S. Edwards...
With a perfectly straight face, business analysts Standard & Poor's Corp. recently predicted: "If small business should encounter inventory losses [after war's end], the moral hazard would increase sharply. Hence, fire underwritings . . . will probably result in a further loss this year...
High-octane gasoline is a mixed blessing. Without it modern aviation would be impossible, but as every airman knows, its touchy inflammability makes it more dangerous than dynamite. Last week the Standard Oil Development Co. demonstrated a new high-octane fuel which it hopes will greatly reduce the fire hazard. They tested it by dropping a flaming match into the stuff. The match went...
Occupational Hazard. In Seattle, Remi C. Delay, fed up with the kidding he got in line of duty as a bus driver, petitioned to change his name to DeLoy...
...soldier in the field would hazard one answer: it takes too long for criticisms of weapons to get up through the chain of commands, where criticisms are often taken skeptically, checked in a time-wasting, cumbersome procedure...