Word: perilous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kingdom is to be tattooed with these odious deformities . . . the noise and stench of locomotive steam-engines are to disturb the quietude of the peasant, the farmer and the gentleman. ... If [railroads] succeed they will . . . destroy all the relations which exist between man and man . . . and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress...
...Morningside Heights. Hu dated a Chinese Vassar girl, but married the village girl to whom his family had engaged him in childhood. Ambassador Hu's wife, too shy and unconfident to come to the U.S., stayed behind in Peking. When the Japanese came, she rescued at great peril what she knew was most precious to her husband: 70 crates of rare books and manuscripts...
Said NLRB's tough general counsel, Robert N. Denham: if Remington Rand signs a new contract with U.E., it does so at "its own peril." NLRB will not help to enforce it. Stormed U.E.'s Fitzgerald: "This is a call to arms to all employers to break contracts...
...somebody was General Eisenhower. Before the conversational ball had really started rolling, Ike grabbed it and hurled it right down the political alley. The nation, said Ike, needs new and dynamic leadership. It faces great peril and it will require a crusading spirit of deed and sacrifice if it is to win through...
...newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. . . . At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply [of news] is not tainted. . . . Comment is free, but facts are sacred. . . . Comment also is justly subject to a self-imposed restraint. It is well to be frank; it is even better to be fair. This is an ideal. . . . We can but try, ask pardon for shortcomings, and there leave the matter...