Word: periled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faced here with a problem whereby great nations are faced with a great peril. Nobody, I think, can fairly dispute that fact. It is a peril that they could readily remedy if they resorted to the methods which were lawful before this Charter was adopted. Then, we wouldn't be sitting around here-perhaps somebody else wouldn't be sitting where he is, either. But those days, we hope, are past, and there has been exercised, and is being exercised, a very great restraint in the face of a very great peril. But you cannot expect that...
...past. There was high praise for Eleanor Roosevelt, who "reminded us so movingly that this is 1956 and not 1932; not even 1952; that our problems alter as well as their solutions; that change is the law of life, and that political parties ignore it at their peril." There was also a nod to Harry Truman, the spirit of '48: "I am glad to have you on my side again...
...burst of exhortation called it "the new Battle of Britain." Three weeks ago he warned: "We are all in it. and upon its outcome our homes, our jobs and our children's future depends." Unless Britain wins the battle, he told a Lancashire audience, "we are in mortal peril of poverty by stages...
...Peril Overhead. Within a week an assortment of disconnected leads pointed to the rose-covered bedroom in Villa Taverna. The villa's service quarters are immediately above the bedroom, and the ambassador had noticed heavy footfalls shaking the beams as the servants went about their chores. Another random point: her breakfast coffee had always tasted bitter and metallic-so much so that she decided privately that no Italian could make American coffee, and installed her own coffeemaker. Another point: she always felt worse in the mornings; the symptoms were most acute after she had been abed...
...last week some Britons shrieked that freedom was in peril, others clucked that care must be exercised. For the first time, Britons were grappling with the problem that the U.S. had been sweating out for years amidst British taunts of "McCarthyism": the importance of a man's associations and beliefs...