Word: perilous
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...caught fire, started to roll over. What looked like an engine or a large piece of engine flew out and ricocheted along the water. The plane hit the water. Chunks of plane sailed past our boat. A stream of flame shot past a hospital ship near by. Then the peril set in. Our own antiaircraft fragments started splashing around. I wished fervently that I had worn my helmet...
Belatedly the island empire awoke to its peril. With Buckner on Okinawa, even medium U.S. bombers could soon roam Japanese skies. Communications with China would be endangered. The homeland itself faced invasion. In Japanese, "Okinawa" means "Rope off in the Sea"; in any language, it now spelled doom...
...impossible task. In desperation they have been driven to saying: '. . . Take this, bad as it is, and later make it what it should be.' Yet while they said it, they have known that . . . there is no basis whatever for belief that nations which in this hour of peril will not offer anything better in the form of world organization than this military alliance will change their policies in the future...
...lacking completely in frankness were I to say that leaving . . . is painless. . . . Knowing that this might be the last time I will speak on this floor, there has been some temptation to make this . . . an 'I told you so' speech. . . . You see the gravity of the peril in which our foreign entanglements have involved us. . . . I am sure, knowing the power of British propaganda, that within 20 years-perhaps within ten years-we shall be told that we must go into another European war to keep Russia from seizing control of the world...
...peril of the cotillion was that wallflowers could not be camouflaged. Says the daughter of Julia Ward Howe: "Today no woman will go to a ball without an escort. These moderns play safe. ... I must say I think we were rather more sporting in our attitude...