Word: periled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilot of the world's fastest airplane, the rocket-pushed Douglas Skyrocket, loosened up a little last week and told a few new facts about how the plane behaves. High above the speed of sound, said Designer Ed Heinemann and Pilot Bill Bridgeman, there is a new peril of the sky: "supersonic...
Just when it looked as if the French and Germans might forget some of their differences in the common peril, an ancient trouble spot set them snarling at each other. The spot: the smoky Saar basin, a tiny wedge of the Rhine valley on the Franco-German frontier. Barely larger (743 sq. mi.) than Allegheny County, Pa., though its population (900,000) is the densest in Europe, the Saar has both strategic position and rich mineral resources, and it has been a tug-of-war ground for centuries...
...create. They would rather see their own nations fall apart than continue their present relations with the West. Communism encouraged this state of mind, and stood to profit hugely from it. But Communism did not create it. The split between the West and the non-Communist East was a peril all its own to world order, quite apart from Communism. Through 1951 the Communist threat to the world continued; but nothing new was added-and little subtracted. The news of 1951 was this other danger in the Near and Middle East. In the center of that spreading web of news...
...Lady Poltagrue, a Public Peril The Devil, having nothing else to do, Went off to tempt My Lady Poltagrue...
These difficulties pain hog-raisers as well as piglets, but conservative farmers consider them inherent hazards of the business, subject at best to minor improvements. Not all non-farmers, however, are quite so pessimistic. Last week, on a farm at Shoemakersville, Pa., platoons of little pigs were enjoying a peril-free infancy, courtesy of Chas. Pfizer & Co., manufacturers of pharmaceuticals (TIME...