Word: perilous
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...dining hall staff already draw eager luncheoners from afar, and where the puny eating space barely accommodates the residents of this, the largest undergraduate house, we look upon your new restrictions as, frankly, almost a declaration of war. I am sure the inhabitants of Lowell share our peril...
Politicians are candid at their peril; a gaffe occurs when one of them inadvertently says what he actually thinks. By that standard, presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan is a veritable gaffemeister, insisting that Watergate was "a bunch of Mickey Mouse misdemeanors," Congress is "Israeli- occupied territory," and Ollie North is "a hero." Buchanan's pasty face crinkles into a smile when he recalls penning phrases like "pusillanimous pussyfooters...
...country. Helter-skelter population growth along some rivers and the mushrooming of commercial construction at the edge of floodplains are putting thousands of people in disaster's path. The danger zones, some 50 miles or more wide, are so vast that newcomers are often unaware of their potential peril. Warnings to evacuate frequently go unheeded, as they did along parts of the Brazos...
Kidnapping Westerners -- not just Americans were in peril -- was easy. After a while, holding them became an end in itself for the extremist groups, earning them prestige among their allies and rivals, and money from Iran...
...that flash, the Cold War began: The death and destruction in Japan and the American nuclear monopoly kept the Soviets on their guard. The U.S.-Japanese security agreement established the entire Pacific rim as a sphere of American control that the Soviet military machine could contest at its own peril...