Word: perilous
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...present for "Miss Margaret." As Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield once remarked: "Sam sticks pretty close to his wife and the Constitution. He's married to both." Ervin's love affair with the Constitution has been lifelong, ardent, unflagging-and finally requited. In an hour of constitutional peril, the Senate turned to Ervin to chair the Watergate investigating committee...
...Baxters meet two sisters, one of whom is blind and psychic. The sisters (well played by Hilary Mason and Clelia Matania) reassure the couple of the happiness of their dead daughter. But they sense danger, too. They tell Baxter that his life is in peril while he remains in Venice. He does not believe them, but he is bothered by strange presentiments, and by the persistent reappearance of a small figure in a hooded red raincoat-the garment his daughter was wearing when she drowned...
...written statement that he said was "facetious," Carrier claimed: "So acute is the reaction to the continuing peril that pedestrians are preparing a charge of grave misconduct and neglect of duty against the members of the commission...
...side, the mob moving in on the other, Charley Varrick is the definitive outside man-or, as he bills himself, "the last of the independents." As he has shown previously in Dirty Harry, Coogan's Bluff and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Director Don Siegel likes the peril such a situation can hold, as well as the sort of crusty dignity it can instill. Charley Varrick is different from much of his recent work, though, in that it is a little more leisurely, relaxed and sardonic...
...entire Arab world, disunited as it was, was shocked by the 1967 defeat. "No Westerner," says a Lebanese intellectual, "can fully understand the sense of peril we felt after 1967." He traces the rise of the new Arab mentality to Nasser's "farewell" speech, of June 1967, in which the humiliated Egyptian leader declared: "The imperialists believe this was a personal defeat for Nasser. But it was a defeat for the whole Arab people, and the Arab people will not accept that defeat...