Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Ike's arrival in Rome: "We welcome this man who speaks to us with the accent of Kansas of farmers who cultivate fields of wheat as vast as seas, of pioneers who went West not long before his birth. He speaks without rhetoric before the imminent peril as he calls for 'Peace, Peace,' -but not peace for the sake of quiet or lack of principle, but peace in which free men believe...
Logistic Support. In San Miguel, N. Mex., when county officials were on the verge of closing the one-room grade school for lack of students, the hamlet's residents averted the peril by hiring a teacher with three school-age children...
Between pilots and their airplanes are secrets that no groundling can ever know. Each airplane has special tricks and foibles, and the pilot who fails to seek them out and test them will one day discover them in time of peril, and perhaps too late. Each pilot, for his part, learns that the well-designed airplane is more forgiving of his own tricks, foibles and lapses of good sense than he has a right to dream. Last week a great airplane's tricks met piloting foibles in a combination that was a heroic test of both sides, almost with...
...fact finders had clearly silhouetted one big fact that the U.S. was discovering on its own: in the 14-week wrangling of the U.S's longest nationwide steel shutdown two immovable forces-Big Steel and the big United Steelworkers-had subjected the nation to an indignity and peril that far exceeded the worth of the points at issue...
...peril of sounding unAmerican, let me point out one of the very few pitfalls of democracy. It permits someone like Ross Barnett to govern by popular vote...