Word: perilousness
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...normal man could freeze to death without first feeling the cold. None could fry without feeling the heat. But burning and freezing are ancient dangers, and nature has had plenty of time to evolve defenses. X rays and gamma rays are a subtler peril. Until recently, they were unimportant hazards in the human environment; evolution largely ignored them. Modern man can wander unheeding into strong radiation that he cannot feel, see, hear, smell or taste. And unless he carries an artificial radiation sense (a Geiger counter, ionization chamber, etc.), he may get a fatal dose without a suspicion...
...forces in the Congo recruited for "notably non-warlike" face what Halberstam called "the most dangerous army on earth": 20, 30, or 40 thousand Congolese soldiers--nobody knows how many--who have arms and nothing else." is nil, and holiday nights that "drunken, marauding, raping of soldiers" are a peril to the Congolese people...
...wintertime in Cambridge comes again. Returns the unrelenting fluid flush, that sweeps along the walks and wets the well-healed souls of those who in the hour of peril venture forth. O, to be depourvu, bereft, and rid of that unwelcome intercessor in these parts, whose subtle liquid motions bring discomfiture and weight depressing on our hearts. O, to be witness and delighted benefactor of efficient snow removal would elicit nightingale-like our most heartiest approval. Banish then the ibis of the wood, return the hush; banish then the offal of the slopping through the slush...
...group from Santa Cruz fled to the Arizona mountain hamlet of Cleator, sure they had chosen one of the twelve places on earth that would be spared by the onrushing disaster. In Los Angeles, radio station KNX scheduled a 55-min. program on the earth's astrological peril. Said Producer Sydney Omarr: "People are taking astrology seriously nowadays. What goes on upstairs has an effect down here...
...only fresh but, so far as possible, free of disease. Even so, donors out to make blood money will sometimes lie about whether they have had malaria, which is hard to check in the laboratory, or hepatitis, which is impossible to check. These diseases are a small but real peril in blood transfusion. Though no case of injury to a patient had been traced to blood supplied by the West-Chester firm, officials are still checking...