Word: periled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secret police dogged the footsteps of foreign newsmen. But at the corner of Marx and Lenin streets the cross still stood, protected by groups of angry women-emphatic evidence that the faith of Poland's Christians is still a force that the Communist bosses challenge at their peril...
...students so "intellectually hungry" and yet so lacking in "a sense of mission." India is tough on a teacher whose chief creed is that of Mr. Justice Holmes: "It is required of a man that he should take part in the actions and passions of his time, at the peril of being judged not to have lived...
Frankenstein Peril. In a year of diplomatic junketing by all heads of state, Herter's travels have produced no dramatics-either soaring victories or crashing defeats. "The method of doing business has changed," says a ranking State Department official. "The element of immediate crisis has been held in abeyance. Whether it will recur after the summit, I don't know." Yet, in Herter's year, the U.S. has strengthened its position in the Middle East, in Communist-menaced Southeast Asia, in Japan, in Latin America, and has even lifted (by dint of presidential diplomacy) Khrushchev...
...accuse the U.S. of neglecting them and leaving them to their own destiny. As he moved through South America last week, President Eisenhower heard some pointed talk about Latin American aspirations and the need for U.S. aid, and he countered with some pointed observations of his own-about the peril of tyranny by subversion and the necessity of helping one's self. All the frank talk, the cheers and the sensation of renewed friendship left no doubt that Ike's remarkable sally into personal diplomacy was having the same telling effect in Latin America that...
...Welensky, 53, is a burly former prizefighter and locomotive engineer who in 1956 became Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, a landlocked prairie nation almost twice the size of Texas, whose existence is in such peril that two of its three federated territories are in an official state of emergency. Wedded to a policy of avowed racial "partnership," Sir Roy is in fact guided and moved by a Parliament that rejects a political voice for Africans, and by a public opinion that supports laws and customs not much different from South Africa's-except...