Word: periled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tiny (pop. 975) Winlock, one of the bureau's early success stories, rose above the peril of a cutback in local timbering operations, went on to find a modest new industry, i.e., a $750,000 cedar-shake processing plant, and to pay for a wide range of community improvements with more than half a million dollars worth of bonds. It also reaped considerable nonmaterial bonuses: attendance at church and community functions has tripled, and election turnouts of 90% are common...
...SELLOUT . . . THE FULL EXPOSURE OF BRITAIN'S PERIL. So read the headlines in the London Daily Express, run by crusty old (77) Lord Beaverbrook, last of the imperialists. And what was the Express so vexed about-Cyprus, Singapore, Suez? No, the deadly peril to Empire, the "mortifying and shameful act of surrender" was the British Cabinet's decision to permit The Texas Co. to buy the British-owned Trinidad...
...Peril of Independence. Three truths must underlie all U.S. thinking on foreign relations, said Ike. "The destiny of man is freedom and justice; human liberty and free government are powerful sources of human energy . . . mightier than armaments ; third . . . people are what count-a sympathetic understanding of other peoples." The responsibility for this lofty approach cannot be met by paper work in a government bureau but requires that "every American . . . daily breathes into it the life of his own practice...
...heavy prose has exaggerated the complexities and difficulties of his generalizations. "If I were he," one professor claims, "I'd spend a whole year revising each book. He just doesn't stop to sweat out expressions." As a result, Toward a General Theory of Action was nicknamed. "The Yellow Peril," and the publishers called in a graduate student to clarify the writing. This graduate student later became one of Parsons' closest collaborators, but not before "Parsonian Prose" had become a permanent part of the faculty vocabulary...
Next Reform. The Ibáñez reforms are not free from peril, though considerably less frightening than the destructive inflation cycle. The first effect of freeing the peso was to devalue it (from the official rate of 300 per dollar to a current 460). That puts heavy strain on the ceiling prices of imported goods, and the whole program is in deep trouble if price ceilings give way. Sure that they will, Labor Federation Leader Clotario Blest, blinking tired eyes in the sunny patio of Santiago's Central Jail, says: "The heart of the matter is that only...