Word: periled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...future war. This is basically a defensive strategy, keyed to what a lover of Westerns would recognize as the "virtue [of] drawing second and killing your man." It rests on a massive atomic counterblow-"one of the most unlimited and inhumane strategies ever devised by man." The ultimate peril of "massive retaliation," says Ways, is that the U.S. will become more and more reluctant to apply it to small incursions, be crowded more and more into a corner where nothing else is left. Ways, who wants no part of preventive war, would keep the strong forces of planes and missiles...
Conversation Needed. The black-robed, bearded patriarchs and metropolitans of Orthodoxy have always been somewhat tentative about their association wjth the World Council. They look with suspicion on the Protestant passion for missions, which they see as a potential peril to themselves, are wary of the proposed merger of the World Council and the International Missionary Council. Said Alexandria's Metropolitan Parthenios of Carthage: "Go slow. I don't know why I fear this, but I fear...
Lithe and lightfoot under the bright summer sun, the matador waited impatiently while the banderillas were planted. Then, with a series of spectacular redondos, slow, cape-twirling passes that prolonged the moment of peril, he prepared his bull for the kill. From the high-banked tiers of the arena at Málaga, Spaniards cracked out their drumfire oles. "Si!" his fans shouted at Luis Miguel Dominguin, "tú, el primero [yes, you're the best...
...would be so big that they would force price increases. To prove how serious he felt about the dangers of inflation, Ike last week vetoed a housing bill because he considered it inflationary. His words-and a torrent of warnings from every quarter-had awakened the nation to the perils of new inflation. As it met with labor last week in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, steel management was keenly aware of that peril-and of a second danger that followed directly from it: a growing threat to American steel in world markets from foreign competitors...
...build link canals and reservoirs in Pakistan to replace water that India diverted for itself. Still, as Black knew, New Delhi and Karachi are tired of a decade of bitterness, and some Indians and Pakistanis, watching Red China's actions in Tibet, have come to recognize a common peril...