Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe is in peril of becoming totally Communist-dominated. China, largely because of America's betrayal, is threatened thus. In fact, in every part of the world the things that matter most are in jeopardy because of Marxian and other collectivisms. . . . It will take a tidal wave to reverse these anti-God trends and save our nation and our world after the pattern God willed and manifested through His Son. In that process this church and each of us can have a real part...
Democract is in peril, declared Algerson D. Black '23 of the American Ethical Union last night at Phillips Brooks House, but he was prepared with an answer as well as a warning. The New York City civic leader came to Boston by plane yesterday afternoon to recruit students for his New York City summer "Encampment for Citizenship" at Fieldston High School...
...Understanding Science" was written, according to the publishers, to help combat "the peril to democracy of a situation in which the ideas and forces that are moving mountains have become increasingly inaccessible to those outside the laboratories...
There has been a "cessation of hostilities," he said, "but we have no genuine peace ... Now that an immediate peril is not plainly visible, there is a national tendency to relax, and to return to business as usual, politics as psual, pleasure as usual...
Thus this week the peril of mines added to its toll of more than 6,300 lives taken since war's end. The toll would surely rise; there are still hundreds of thousands of live mines in unswept fields close to main shipping channels. The danger of floaters would remain for many years. Greece, Sardinia and Sicily were almost surrounded by minefields. Off the Channel coasts and The Netherlands and Denmark, near Eire and Iceland were thousands of mines. The U.S. coasts were believed to be swept clean...