Word: perilous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...somewhat appalled by the spectacle of an English citizen assaulting the former President of the United States. But I would remind the reader that the problems Mr. Hoover discusses are bone of my bone as well as of his, and that in our common peril I believe it is my right to differ with Mr. Hoover in print as I did with Mr. Chamberlain over Munich...
...faces the Orient. Isolationists still nourish their conviction that the U.S. has no business in Europe's messes, still argue privately that anyway Japan is the only one who has yet attacked us. Anglophobes suspect Britain, Red haters fear Russia. The Hearst press has not forgotten the Yellow Peril. Further, a considerable number of sense-making military officers and civilian observers believe and can show that Japan is more dangerous than many Americans realize...
...gamy Memphis another clean-up campaign was in full swing, and as usual owl-eyed, benign Boss Ed Crump, 67, was the prime cudgel-wielder. This time he was after the cats. Memphis songbirds were in peril, said the boss, so cats must go. A "nice house cat" was all right, but tramps of either sex were out. Promptly cattraps began to appear in Memphis back yards, particularly those of county and city employes. County Commissioner Francis Andrews trapped three right...
...that postwar interests of the U.S. would best be served by an internationally minded man with a capitalistic background. Mr. Willkie has grown in stature since his 1940 defeat, has proved himself to many who did not consider his background adequate to lead the country in time of national peril...
...Christianity of much of Europe has been driven into the catacombs. That of lands like our own, still free, tends to become more intimate and inward," he declared. "But all such movements of retreat inward from a too-difficult outer world bring with them an attendant peril--a willingness to divorce religion from the fabric of culture and the course of history, leaving the ordering of civilization as a whole in the charge of candidly secular forces...