Word: imperilling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...General Robert Kennedy to authorize a tap on Levison's phones. Alarmed by the discovery that Levison had recommended another former Communist to King for a job, President John Kennedy warned King as they walked in the White House Rose Garden that his association with the two men could imperil impending civil rights legislation...
...abuse it. If there is a strong link between our countries, it is more because of our hearts than because of our guns or money. And when we add insult to injury by ignoring the Australians' protests at the same time as we damage their economy, we needlessly imperil a valuable friendship...
...Court. With his hot shot team of lawyers and law students, Dershowitz argued that von Bulow's initial trial had been unfair because defense attorneys had not been given access to certain evidence. Dershowitz also argued that the use of a private investigator to uncover evidence for prosecution could imperil people's liberty from unwarranted searches of their private property. He won on the first argument but not on the second...
...after the war, faced exile to Siberia or worse. He further suggests that U.S. authorities offered them new identities, enabling the soldiers to go home, but not resume their old lives, if they would spy for the West. The offers went to devoted family men who would not imperil their kin. This poignant tale of one such impersonation provides a ground-level view of four dark decades, from the Stalinist '30s to the imperceptibly detentist...
...worse time for grain exporters. Their shipping season ends Dec. 16, shortly before the seaway freezes up, although on occasion the seaway has been kept open an extra week or two when weather permitted. For Thunder Bay, Ont., the world's largest grain-exporting port, a lengthy shutdown could imperil the delivery of 6 million tons of Canadian wheat and animal feed bound for the Soviet Union. At the port of Milwaukee, ( 20,000 tons of food destined for famine victims in Africa and India last week sat piled up on the docks. Supplies headed for Midwestern factories were also...