Word: periled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the constitution writers had been haggling, the News, the secret socities, and the fraternities woke up to what they considered a grisly peril. The News blasted the proposal in print while the secret society and fraternity men carried on an effective word-of-mouth anti-`council campaign. When the students voted in May, they gave the constitution a 2,199 to 1,851 majority, 501 short of the two-thirds necessary for passage...
...defend. It did nothing to stop the rumors. Dean Acheson owed his job to just one man, Harry Truman, who has said he considers him one of the "great Secretaries of State." The President was apt to stick by him the more he was attacked. Acheson's peril, however, lay not so much with critics of his foreign policy, as with its friends, who feared that his unpopularity jeopardized the policy. It was their outspoken worrying that lent credence to reports that within a month or two Acheson would quit. Most scuttlebutt simply had him returning to private...
...what they could tell about disorders at the base of the skull. In France in World War I, he took X rays for operations to be performed by the late great Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing. Dr. Brown worked day & night with virtually unshielded field equipment, ignoring the invisible peril...
...strong-arm methods-as many another tyrant has learned-are not always the worst thing a religion has to fear. Warned 16-year-long China Missionary Samuel E. Boyle: "The danger now facing the Chinese churches is not that of physical persecution. The real peril is spiritual -in yielding to the temptation to accept half-slavery...
Responsible & Wrong. In the tones of a tired Cassandra, Churchill said: "The supreme peril is in Europe. We must try to close the hideous gap on the European front...