Word: periled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's foreign problems, he said, color and overshadow the budget problem and other domestic factors; the United Nations, with all its shortcomings, can be ignored only "at our future peril...
Willard Libby was primarily addressing himself to Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the illustrious missionary-physician and Nobel Peace Prizewinner, who had called for an end to H-bomb testing because of the strontium 90 peril. Is it not preferable. Dr. Libby gently asked Dr. Schweitzer, to accept this small risk rather than "the far greater risk, to freedom-loving people everywhere," of slackening "our defenses against the totalitarian forces"-until some method of safeguarded disarmament has been achieved...
...population of 48 million were often subject to police harassment and refused permits necessary for Protestant public activities, until last month, when Italy's highest court declared this requirement unconstitutional. The Vatican is far from pleased by such relaxation of the rules, asserts that the Protestants ("this condemned peril") are using "propaganda methods that now find wide application," and calls for "most decisive defense action." Highlights of the report...
...gets the most money, however, are not all of U.S. making. Sometimes the degree of a country's exposure to military and political intrusion by the Communists is not matched by its ability to absorb dollars wisely, or its leaders' alertness to, or willingness to confront, this peril...
None of this proves, say the reporting scientists, that the earth's present "burden" of strontium 90 is an immediate peril, but neither does it prove the contrary. They suspect that the average human being contains about eight times more strontium 90. than was reported in the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 18), and they note that the amount is increasing, and may be increasing rapidly. They insist that no one knows how much is needed to damage health...