Word: hazardous
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South Korea sees itself as militarily strong, but facing an extreme hazard. Every Korean leader seems to have a map in his mind and a geographic lecture on his lips: the country is the tip of a small peninsula at the edge of the Asian continent. It faces not only the intransigent opposition of North Korea on its only border, but beyond that the land mass of both China and Soviet Russia. At its back and sides, South Koreans repeatedly point out, there is only...
Anti-Tire Forces. Not everyone has admired Heidelberger's Mount Baldy. The Andover town board, charging that the tires had become a breeding ground for rats and mosquitoes, repeatedly tried to force him to get rid of them. The state, worried about a fire hazard, once demanded that he bury his tires individually, 2 ft. deep and 4 ft. apart. "There's not enough land in the state to bury all my tires," snorted Heidelberger...
...world's troublesome flash points, the eastern Mediterranean, involves not just two adversaries but four -Greece against Turkey, and the U.S. Congress against the White House. An increasing hazard of this four-way face-off: an open, ugly military confrontation between Greece and Turkey, possibly as early as this summer...
Wuest said yesterday it made sense to remove the chemicals even if they did not pose a very serious hazard. He added that he will try to replace the chemicals by the summer term, and that he hopes the change will be permanent...
Although it may not be apparent, "S" carded a courageous 11 on the redoubtable seventh, a hole replete with a meandering fairway and a menacing water hazard. Reaching the green of the par five eighth was an arduous business, and he found a greenside bunker. After unleashing a frenzied rain of blows, his ball had not budged. "S" suddenly lost the will to go on, so his incomplete scorecard will be preserved for posterity as a noble fragment...