Word: perilousness
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...real peril point in modern presidential politics is the baton-passing moment when a sitting President tries to transfer power to a successor. This has never been done successfully in modern politics. Such elections have been the only ones in modern times when the White House shifted to the other party. Truman could not pass the keys of office to Stevenson, nor Eisenhower to Nixon, nor L.B.J. to Hubert Humphrey...
...wooden castle door closed against his pursuer, he calls out: "Is there a doctor in the house?" A silhouette appears on the screen, as if from the audience, and says: "Yes, I'm a doctor." Bugs, suddenly taking an insouciant munch on a carrot and ignoring the peril outside the door, inquires: "Eh, what...
...however, he unwittingly demonstrates that jargon is highly contagious: "Medical obscurity may now serve an infra-group recognition function, rather like a secret fraternal handshake. In any event it is a game, and everybody plays it. Indeed, I suspect one refuses to play at one's professional peril...
Warning of Peril. From the beginning, the race was between Barbagelata's belt-tightening oratory and Mascone's smoother campaign organization and personal style. The dollar-conscious Barbagelata, a businessman who keeps a pocket calculator at the ready during board of supervisors meetings, counted on support from San Franciscans who feared their city might suffer the fate of New York. A four-day police and firemen's strike in August showed citizens how determined unions might bully a city into submission. Over the supervisors' protests, outgoing Mayor Joseph Alioto finally caved in and granted raises...
...warmth and life of their own--along with several layers of seemingly ineradicable grime. Just to tread across the Yard, basking in that rich past housing a living tradition that no amount of mismanagement and folly can undo is always a moving sensation, even when one faces the constant peril of beaning at the hands of the student body's countless spastic frisbee hurlers...