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Word: periled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exactly as planned." According to calculations based on radio measurements of the spacecraft's decreased speed, Mariner II had corrected its course neatly; instead of missing Venus by 233,000 miles, it would pass it on Dec. 14 at the ideal observation distance of 9,000 miles. Some peril of hostile space may yet put Mariner II out of action before it reaches its goal, but already its voyage is a triumph of U.S. technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Command Correction | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...maximum orderly effort." If it is, then maximum needs a new definition. The space program could certainly use more money. But much more important, it requires a new direction of purpose. Scientific advancement is fine; so is the international prestige that comes with space achievement. But only at its peril can the U.S. forget that old maxim about the high ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The High Ground | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

Roadblocks Everywhere. As nothing else, the sudden anarchy brought home to Brazilians the peril of their patchwork political regime. Because the army and conservative Brazilians considered Goulart a dangerous leftist, he was not allowed to succeed Quadros in the presidency until a parliamentary system was hurriedly devised to confine his powers. The confining proved so effective that neither Goulart nor Tancredo Neves, the Prime Minister with whom he shared office, could get anything done. When they did agree, conservatives in Congress blocked virtually every badly needed reform bill Goulart's government proposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: The Headless Government | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

...years ago, such a bill would have seemed hopelessly visionary. But in just the past few months the European Common Market, long an ephemeral concept to most Americans, has taken shape as the embodiment of an invigorated and competitive Europe that the U.S. can ignore only at its peril. The Common Market-and the growing tendency of other nations to join in trade blocs-meant one thing to the U.S. economy: in order to overcome the tariff favoritism granted to each other by the Market's member nations, the U.S. must be able to bargain for a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: For Merit's Sake | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...normal man could freeze to death without first feeling the cold. None could fry without feeling the heat. But burning and freezing are ancient dangers, and nature has had plenty of time to evolve defenses. X rays and gamma rays are a subtler peril. Until recently, they were unimportant hazards in the human environment; evolution largely ignored them. Modern man can wander unheeding into strong radiation that he cannot feel, see, hear, smell or taste. And unless he carries an artificial radiation sense (a Geiger counter, ionization chamber, etc.), he may get a fatal dose without a suspicion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Avoid Radiation Without Really Knowing It | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

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