Word: perilous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent their lives on U.S. soil -farmers who tilled the rich brown loam in the Sama Clara Valley, fishermen riding the slow swells off San Diego, humble shopkeepers in the little stores of San Francisco. But they learned last week that, in a nation's hour of peril, having been born a citizen is not enough. So they began to pack their keepsakes, lift their slant-eyed children on their arms, and start on the long migration east across the Sierra Nevadas, to dreary inland country far from the blue sea. They were some of the West Coast...
...this week faces its bitterest defeat since 1814: the loss of all the southwest Pacific except Australia. And Australia is in peril. If Java falls, if the United Nations lose their last bases within striking distance of the Japanese, what kind of war can the U.S. then wage in the Pacific...
...tickets will be: Republicans-C. Wayland Brooks v. Warren Wright and Ralph E. Church; Democrats-Raymond S. McKeough v. Paul Douglas. These names meant only one thing in a year of war and peril-that politics-as-usual dominated Illinois...
...Imperial Military Staff College was interrupted shortly before World War I by an order to go to Germany and have a look around. Kaiser Wilhelm, then in his finest military feather and almost ready for war, had done quite a little chanticleering about the then fashionable Yellow Peril, but there were many in Berlin who regarded London as the real root of all evil. Among them was a young philosopher named Karl Haushofer (now Adolf Hitler's theorist on geopolitics), who had met Yamashita in Japan in 1908 and now befriended him, publicly accoladed the Japanese as "the Prussians...
...answer the fears of Canadians who share the U.S. people's frustration. It was a soft answer. In a broadcast to Canada, the President praised the Dominion's war effort, called what Canadians have done "the achievements of a great nation." Said the President: "There is peril ahead for us all, and sorrow for many. But our cause is right...