Word: imperil
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This defeat delayed the Russian drive, but it did not necessarily imperil the Russian position. Behind the army of General Nikolai Vatutin lay a snow-swept steppe which offered the Germans no rich prize. By throwing all their waning strength into this battle the Germans betrayed their own fears-for the Bug, Bessarabia, the uneasy Balkans...
...shelled Vitebsk, 15 miles away, and its "escape railway" to the west. From the city and the railroad came the dull, angry answer of German salvos. Things were going badly for the Wehrmacht, but it fought on. Vitebsk was a dam; it had to be held. Its fall would imperil the strongholds of White Russia -Orsha, Mogilev, Zhlobin, Polotsk - perhaps lead to retreat beyond the prewar Polish border...
...breakdown at Khersoi would throw the Germans back to the Bug River, further imperil the troops still entrenched within the Dnieper bend. It looked like the beginning of a hard winter for Germans...
...labor so far away from the main body of American sentiment that the gap could not be closed without a disastrous struggle. ... I am deeply alarmed today over the possibility that a right-wing reaction may draw some sections of capital so far away from our traditions as to imperil the entire structure of American life as we know...
...Russians, being realists of a particularly chilly kind, believe that the best insurance of national safety is: 1) effective understandings, coldly reached, with all the powers far or near which might imperil that safety; and 2) an army and an air force strong enough to repel any military threat...