Word: parlous
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...away to the pirates of Bias Bay. Then Juan falls into Kuo Kuo's clutches again, and almost before he knows it he finds himself in a tin-armored tank advancing against the Japanese intrenchments, under heavy but inaccurate fire. How Author Linklater extricates his hero from that parlous position is a caution...
...students who have been excessively nervous because of suspicious looking men lurking around the gates of the Yard recently need have no fears of possible arson, murder, kidnapping, or any other parlous deeds...
During the reign of her first son, sickly Frangois II, she waited and watched; at his death she declared herself Regent for her second surviving son, 10-year-old Charles IX. Now she found that her family affairs were the parlous state of the nation. Bled nearly white by protracted wars, griped by religious dissension, rumbling with revolt, France was apparently tottering toward dissolution. "With all its normal resources mortgaged [the government] was reduced to a point at which it functioned for the sole benefit of the international financiers...
...Supreme Court has left of the New Deal. But whereas President Roosevelt has unnecessarily alienated the support of Business and established a personal and factional government, Governor Landon, if elected, will be checked by a Democratic Senate, hence forced to constitute a Government of "national union" such as the parlous times demand...
...parlous times like these those who seek to advance their fortunes in the world must be masters of the manly art of self-expression, especially on paper. A literary stammerer is as helpless in Harvard College as is the tongue-tied man in the advertisements when called upon for a speech, and the CRIMSON editorial competition will teach writing better than either English A or any correspondence school you ever...