Word: perilous
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...indignities you try to inflict on me. You have threatened to arrest me for not obeying your orders promptly. I dare you to do it, and I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path, it will be at the peril of your life." Bragg did not take the dare...
...Finnish janitor was represented by a Negro defense attorney who at once pleaded the prisoner "guilty," appealed for mercy to the so-called Court. Anyone hearing this appeal might have supposed that the prisoner was in gravest peril. "Don't expel him from the party!" begged Negro Counsel Richard B. Moore (onetime Communist candidate for State's Attorney General). "Expulsion from the party is worse than death at the hands of the bourgeoisie! I would rather have my head severed by lynchers than be expelled from the Communist International...
...Dressed in green, holding herself stiffly erect, the onetime Brooklyn girl answered questions briefly, almost insolently, in pseudo-Oxonian accent. Her inquisitors attempted to show that she was a falsifier of her court's official record, a tyrant on the bench who petulantly bossed defendants around at the peril of their constitutional rights, a dispenser of justice toward women offenders far less merciful than male magistrates...
...book firm to run the Hearst-Cosmopolitan Book Corp. But eclipsing all these milestones was that French business. Nothing like it had come to Mr. Hearst since the golden years when he was precipitating the Spanish-American war, getting the Panama Canal fortified, startling the nation with the Yellow Peril...
...officeholder ever made the eagle scream louder than does Publisher Hearst in his recurrent calls to arms against the "yellow peril" of Japan, the "dominance" of Britain, the "venality" of France. Thoughtful Japanese regard Publisher Hearst with curious interest as another U. S. phenomenon to be studied and, if possible, comprehended. Britons talk among themselves of his "Anglophobia" but welcome him to their country where at Lincolnshire and Glamorgan, Wales, he maintains vast castles. This strategy of "soothing down" was brilliantly executed last year by Britain's great irrepressible Conservative, Winston Spencer Churchill, when Hearst Anglophobia was approaching...