Word: periled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pitch balls reflected off the somber, jagged ruins, dusty brick and grimy concrete of windowless, crumbling buildings along the line of march. It said much for a stouthearted people, the pride they had found in their new, battle-tested armies and the unity they had found in their common peril, that they could celebrate amidst such desolation...
...vast numbers who participated in the national election of the other day. If, then, Mr. Kohr dissents from their judgment, concludes that he is governed tyrannically, and decides to obey only those laws which he finds agreeable, what can one say to him but that he proceeds at his peril...
Humphrey is eloquent on the perils of inflation, but he senses another peril in slamming the U.S. economy against the dashboard if he puts on the brakes too fast. He has a businessman's horror of running a government by deficit, and is a devout believer in the balanced budget (even to the point of personal conviction that defense spending should be cut if necessary, to balance the budget). But Humphrey knows that Harry Truman's $78.6 billion budget, with its $9.9 billion deficit, is another factor which makes quick economic change impossible...
Today once again we live in a period of peril, far greater peril to my mind than many of us appear to realize. The prospect of the physical annihilation of all of Harvard is for the first time in our history a possibility that we must admit. The destruction of the spiritual premises on which our whole tradition rests is likewise a possibility that no one can deny who recalls the fate of the University in Prague. To prevent such possibilities' becoming in fact realities is the problem that we face collectively and individually. Each one of us must asses...
...tend, rightly or wrongly, to convict him of a crime. Manifestly this is a delicate business. The witness must not be required to prove his guilt in demonstrating the incriminating character of the answer sought. A judge must decide when the witness has gone far enough to demonstrate his peril...