Word: imperiled
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...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...
...therefore, but natural that when the second great war of this century descended upon us this autumn, the British Government should have hesitated to imperil so priceless a possession by trusting it to the angry transit of the seas...
...satisfactorily," and continued, "but please convey to the Harvard CRIMSON O.G.P.U., alias Cambridge W.C.T.U., our desire to have original returned for framing. Undecided whether to report case to La Follette Civil Liberties Committee or Dies Committee for Un-American Activities, but suspect that suspicious color of your sheet will imperil you most with latter group...
...Nazi government realizes that, should the Italian peninsula and Tunisia be joined under the same rule, Mussolini would obtain strategic control over the Mediterranean. And the dominance of this sea by any single nation would imperil the "drang nach Osten." Recent events have only emphasized the importance to Germany of maintaining the divided control there is at present; for the Reich, barred by a hostile Rumania from access to the Black Sea, is now trying to make Yugoslavia her vassal and Mediterranean outlet. German interests have thus come into conflict with the Italian dream of a "Mare Nostrum...
Sample platitudes and homely phrases: "To essay too much at once may, by arousing opposition, imperil the plan." "In stead of applying the principle of self-education there has been too much drag ging of youth over the ground in perambulators and wondering why their running does not improve," An epigram Dr. Lowell borrows may be borrowed also by un friendly biographers as his epitaph: "We pride ourselves on being a practical people - which Disraeli somewhere described as men who practice the errors of their ancestors...