Word: periled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under the authority of the President, and I really personally believe it would be a mistake to make it definitely and directly responsible to the political head of the state." Four years ago, well aware that Harry Truman had let the Treasury run Federal Reserve policies, to the peril of the U.S. economy, Ike pledged he would preserve the board's new status of independence. On the eve of a fresh campaign, he was happy to reaffirm the pledge...
Last week, with Israel's technical machinery at a virtual standstill and with the nation's health in peril, the government had no choice but to make a token sur render. Seizing on a compromise offer from the strikers, it agreed to give them two-thirds of their promised pay raise now, and the rest within three years. Within twelve hours, the government announced that it was also considering increases for all workers...
...deter aggression. We recognize that such power should never serve as a means of national aggrandizement but only as an essential shield . . . We shall help ourselves and others to peace, freedom and social progress, maintaining human rights where they are already secure, defending them when they are in peril, and peacefully restoring them where they have temporarily been lost...
...tenth of a percentage point. As a result, he has won an admiration among European statesmen that borders on adulation. Admits one French news paper: a commander "less flexible and less informed on European politics-the short period of command by General Ridgway shows this-would have brought great peril not only to the military organization but the Atlantic alliance itself." Said able NATO Secretary-General Lord Ismay, who as personal chief of staff to Churchill in World War II, has seen many: "General Gruenther is the greatest soldier-statesman I have ever known...
...newest weapon, the long-range guided missile. From Moscow to the apprehensive free world comes a terse radio announcement: for the next ten days, a 200-mile-square area in the landless South Pacific is a danger area; shipmasters and airplane pilots traverse it at their peril. The U.S. Navy and Air Force take tip surveillance of the area; radar tracking crews from Alaska to New Guinea stand by their gear. On one of these days, a small, swift object rises steeply from the Kamchatka Peninsula. It soars into space on a curve 500 miles high, curves downward even more...