Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fascist uprising reached Barcelona, two years ago, factory whistles all over the city began to blow. In the grey dawn, while the street lights were still burning, one whistle sounded, then another, then a hundred-steadily, mournfully, as in the old days the belfries clamored together in times of peril. Fascist troops were marching on the centre of the city...
...London Lord Halifax, British Foreign Secretary, meanwhile had conferred on the Palestine mess with Foreign Minister Seyyid Tawfik al Suwaidi of Iraq, an Arab country which has done more than its part in fanning the Palestine fire. In a Cabinet session Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain discussed the peril of the Near Eastern civil war to the Empire's lifeline to India. Strong were the indications that Britain would shortly give in to Arab demands that Jewish immigration be stopped and that the population be stabilized at 400,000 Jews, 900,000 Arabs...
...Joseph Kennedy, broke off his vacation on the Riviera. Top-rank diplomats do not thus dash about unless urgent matters are at stake. Bonds of virtually all the Great Powers weakened in London. There fiscal authorities put aside their strained optimism of the past few weeks to agree "the peril of war is acute...
...unions rocked to & fro, with their seats and their unions in peril...
Grey, 69-year-old Democrat Michelson, who has seen four Republican publicity ghosts come & go since he took over in his shop in 1929, denied that the free press was in peril but conceded that newspapers "love to trifle with the idea." Recalling a time when corruption of the press was common, and looking forward to a day when all newspapers would live up to the code of ethics observed by the best, Mr. Michelson mused: "But even in that better day, if it ever arrives, I darkly suspect that whenever the occasion offers, the press will rise...