Word: perilous
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...fate of Budapest and of Vienna, 135 miles beyond it, depended upon how much the Germans could spare to defend them. With Germany's east and west fronts in peril, how much was left for the south? Would Hungary's 35 divisions follow Horthy's line? Or would they follow the new government of Ferenc Szalasi, leader of the Fascist Arrow Cross...
...this week the Germans' hard crust had been definitely broken where Hodges' smashes north of Aachen had sunk in past Ubach and Beggendorf (see map). The crust south and east of Aachen (which was in peril of encirclement) showed signs of breaking in the Hürtgen forest area...
...people's courage, their heroism and their scorn of death. He is far less prone to dwell on other emotions which unquestionably do exist in people's hearts - on such feelings as a longing for home, on man's natural fear in the face of peril, on bodily fatigue and depressing thoughts...
...divisions which Hitler had in France and the Low Countries three months ago, 15 have been destroyed. 15 badly mauled; the rest are in peril. East, west and south, the Allies will probably cut down many more divisions before finally contracting their grip on the central Nazi fortress...
...Facts which might arouse the nation to its peril were stifled. But anything which could turn Frenchmen against Russia, against the 'Marxists,' against England herself, and also make them look favorably upon the dictators, was hammered home. ... In February 1936 the Führer, through the channel of Bertrand de Jouvenel, was given the opportunity to explain his policy to the readers of Jean Prouvost's Paris Midi. The military reoccupation of the Rhineland was to follow within a few days: as far as propa ganda could go, it was a remarkable performance...