Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, Backman believes, organisms riding on cosmic particles or meteorites might fly safely through celestial space. He admits they would meet a great hazard when they hit the earth's atmosphere, where atmospheric friction would heat the particles or meteorites enough to destroy all organisms clinging to them. But he believes that the atmosphere may tear the organisms away from their carriers before they get too hot. Any such free-floating bacteria which came in on the earth's dark side, shaded from the sun, might drop safely to earth. Q.E.D...
...over disputes at home which adversely affect the war effort. Our small sacrifices should be personal even more than financial. They should be proof positive that we never forget for a moment that the soldier has been compelled to leave his family, to give up his business, and to hazard his life...
From the beginning there was no doubt that the Allies' beachhead thrust at Nettuno was full of hazard. An amphibious landing on the flank of a stubborn, able foe was bound to be. But this week the risk looked bigger than it ever had, since first the troops waded ashore on the morning...
...reason for the hazard was easy to see. The beachhead attack was only a part of a tactical concept which also included the forcing of other events. Because of the quick perception of the German command, and the good show its troops were putting on, the other events had failed to happen. Result: a temporary stalemate, still fraught with possibilities of defeat but still promising an Allied victory...
Order and Disorder. What Western readers may get from The Wisdom of Confucius, and what Chinese do not emphasize, is the sense of constant hazard in Confucius' search for a wise sovereign...