Word: perilous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early last week correspondents motored at their peril on a road near Beurát-el-Hsun, between the British Eighth Army and the Afrika Korps' line east of Tripoli. Late in the week the same correspondents, venturing out again, saw signs left by British sappers: "Road free of mines as far as three miles east of Beaur...
During the peril of national emergency, British conservatism muddled through, cooperating with policies it normally would have rejected as dangerously radical. Domestically and externally, the Tory policy was that of the Government, liberal in the extreme, giving birth to advances in British lalior legislation and imcome restriction, and making possible such phenomenal occurrences as the offer of union with France of June...
Last week had been a time of peril, with moments such as that when the House of Representatives last year so knife-narrowly voted not to disband the drafted Army (203-202). The danger was not yet past. But the surpassing danger had been avoided-that the Congress would take action which would set group against group, labor against agriculture, Congress against President, in struggles bitter enough to disrupt the Republic...
...nation's peril must not be exploited by any individual or group for special gains...
...would make themselves felt over the weekend. By Monday morning the farm bloc was scrabbling around for a compromise. Brown stood firm. Barkley let the debate drag. The lobbyists met that night-this time with a smaller bloc of the faithful. The Administration now had the votes. The immediate peril was over...