Word: periled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayflower landed in Plymouth in 1620. In 1914 another boat set out from England to America, this time facing no certain peril but promising pleasure, and it carried some Harvard graduates. When the Titanic hit an iceberg the news was quickly relayed home and filtered through the kitchens of the wealthy to the lower-class quarters in almost every American city. The news was large and radiant with symbolism, and it inspired a ballad...
...principle of citizens' rights. Equally important-though too infrequently discussed-is the citizen's responsibility. For our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities. Each can be neglected only at the peril of the other. All Americans must be responsible citizens, but some must be more responsible than others, by virtue of their public or private position, their role in the family or community, their prospects for the future or their legacy from the past...
...cavalierly dismiss James as naive and rambling. One can grimace at pragmatism as aesthetically grubby. But one does so only at peril of missing a most valuable set of lessons. The trinitarianism of James offers real hope for re-weaving the tangled threads of Western culture into a coherent fabric. And the emphasis on pure experience assures one that such a fabric would remain bright unfaded, vital. It is these two aspects of the thought of James that demand our closest attention. And it is these two aspects that compel us to recognize him as Harvard's greatest intellectual...
...deep, but readers can test how well McPhee succeeded in "The Man on the Billboard" in SHOW BUSINESS. He was helped immeasurably by the candor of that most complicated and honest man, Richard Burton. At one point, Elizabeth Taylor warned her friend that he was putting himself in peril by talking so freely to McPhee. By way of answer, Burton turned to McPhee. "You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice...
...much of the past year. Furthermore, steelmen take the chance of turning their customers increasingly to lower-priced imports, which rose by 1,000,000 tons last year, and to steel substitutes, which last year displaced 2,000,000 tons of steel. Wheeling wisely tried to avoid this peril by limiting its rise to products for which domestic demand is strong and import pressure is weak-sheets and strips widely used in cars and construction...