Word: imperil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House Janizaries. For that reason, what young Senator Pepper did and said last week had a special significance. First, he proposed to the Senate that the U. S. sell its Army and Navy planes to the Allies (when in the President's judgment these sales do not imperil U. S. defense). The proposal was shelved by a Foreign Relations Committee vote of twelve to one. Mr. Pepper voting alone...
...ousted until five days before Armistice by the French and the U. S. Rainbow Division. On Tuesday afternoon the soldiers of the Third Reich entered Sedan. There was now very little hope of saving Belgium. It was a question of saving France. A further German breakthrough would imperil the whole of France's western defenses to the sea. The French rear areas were taking an awesome beating from the bombs and strafing of some 7,000 planes...
...motion of Father Coughlin's lawyers, the suit was dismissed "without cost to either party." Both parties to the suit joined in mumbling something about "the time and effort which would be consumed in the suit might better be directed to challenging public attention to those things which imperil America...