Word: imperiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series of swift, well-timed drives, slashing behind the Nationalist lines, he had won back nearly all of Shantung. General Wang Yao-wu, the Nationalist provisional governor, was bottled up in his capital at Tsinan. Chen's surging armies threatened to burst out of the province and imperil the entire shaky Nationalist defense system in Central China...
...Russia to imperil the U.S. position in Greece was to start a backfire in Italy. As U.S. troops, under the peace treaty terms, prepared to pull out of the country last week, the Communists struck hard...
...letter to Representative Mundt the scientist pointed out that the undemocratic inquests of Rankin's group imperil "our high esteem for our Congress, and its prestige throughout the family of nations...
...against federal, state, and municipal governments; so long as the injustices of private enterprise are carried over into public works, the worker has a right to strike. But in those utilities which are vital to the national economy, it is the duty of the government to correct conditions which imperil the operation of the utility. And the conditions which create the current blind obedience to a demagogic and dangerous leader are deeply rooted in the facts of private ownership. If Mr. Truman cannot succeed in bluffing Mr. Lewis, then he will be sowing the wind. And the nation shall reap...
...cooperate so admirably on certain short-term programs not only create a general distrust of liberalism among the American people, but will turn violently upon liberalism in every case in which it opposes the totalitarian communist program. Failure to drive the communists from liberal groups can only serve to imperil and finally destroy the liberal movement. Philip Rahn...