Word: hazardously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is not to say that pretrial publicity is never a hazard to justice. The longstanding argument over the rights of free press v. the rights to fair trial goes back, in its modern phase, to cases like the Lindbergh kidnaping: the courtroom at Bruno Hauptmann's trial turned into a grotesque circus, jammed with 150 reporters and cameramen. In the case of Cleveland Osteopath Sam Sheppard, accused of murdering his wife in 1954, the local newspapers ran a virtual crusade for conviction before and during the trial. Incredibly, the jurors at first were allowed to go home...
Ingram said that the catalytic converter, which eliminates many of the harmful substances from exhaust fumes before they are released into the air, may itself become a health hazard by emitting potentially dangerous sulfates into the environment...
...current discussions in Congress do not improve the psychological climate for giving, there is no present reason to believe that federal tax legislation is going to change actual incentives for donating to higher education this year, although next year and the years beyond pose a substantial, but presently unquantifiable hazard...
Political husbands are inevitably subjected to ribbing. If there is a major psychological hazard in being one, it stems from the assumption that the role must be demeaning. "I'm not neglected; I'm not in the background. I do my own thing," insists Manhattan Stockbroker and onetime Novelist Martin Abzug, whose wife of 30 years, Bella, 54, is one of the most outspoken women in Congress. Conrad Chisholm, husband of New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, 49, echoes Abzug. "I am a man whose ego is intact," he says. Like most political husbands, he is quick...
Ever since the urban riots and campus protests of the 1960s, journalists have been sensitive to criticism that they tend to exaggerate violence, and that the mere presence of TV cameras and crowds of reporters can detonate a volatile situation. Boston faced precisely such a hazard this month when public schools opened under a controversial integration plan involving busing. Local news coverage, however, was an uncommon paradigm of restraint...