Word: perilousness
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McDonald's set also hints at the peril which threatens this unstable society. The light gray, starkly furnished rooms of Elsinore are tipped precariously over a menacing ocean. Major set changes occur in semidarkness in order to display striking images of moving castle walls...
...Japanese commerce and Japanese emigration increased, so did Western talk of a "yellow peril." In 1922 the Supreme Court ruled that Japanese immigrants were ineligible to become U.S. citizens. The following year it ruled that they could be barred from owning American land -- Japanese farmers were then growing 10% of California's agricultural produce on 1% of its land. In 1924, when Congress imposed national immigration quotas, the figure for Japanese was zero...
...situation in the former Soviet Union is the most dangerous in the world today, much more so than the one in the Middle East. In fact, it was precisely the late, unlamented U.S.-Soviet rivalry that invested the Arab-Israeli conflict with its greatest peril. As long as the two armed camps each had a glowering superpower at its back, a regional crisis could escalate to global conflagration. The end of the cold war has made progress toward a peaceful settlement more imaginable but also, in one sense, less crucial. While there is every reason to hope for success...
That vision of a democratic Cambodia, alas, is fraught with peril. Chief fear is that the Khmer Rouge, the rebel faction that ruled the country with a brutal hand in the mid-1970s, may try once again to seize power...
...awful prospect of sending men and women into battle will be comforted and inspired by his example. It is a pity that such of his predecessors in the White House as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt, each bearing on his shoulders the burden of a nation in dire peril, should be forced by the Victorian ethic to forgo the solace of a good cry. And then there was General George Washington at Valley Forge, who reportedly cried as seldom as he lied...