Word: perilousness
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...peril to the U.S., says the report, lies in the meeting of two separate dangers. These are 1) the Communist threat, striving with a combination of missile rattling and peace propaganda to dominate the U.S. and the free world; 2) the city-killing potential of new thermonuclear weapons...
...into the streets one evening last week. Tatterdemalion crowds surged and shoved into the battlemented Castel Nuovo, where the kings of Anjou once ruled the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. A huge sign went with them: "For the love of your Naples, do not resign! The ship is in peril, you must stay at the helm!" The mob was out in defense of Naples' Mayor Achille Lauro, the flamboyant millionaire shipowner and Monarchist whose freewheeling administration has won him the title of Il Re del Mezzogiorno ("The King of the South...
...take sides" with the Anti-Vivisection Society, or with either opposition in the recent legal breaching of the Animal Rescue Societies by the Medical Laboratories in Massachusetts. It is to say that some of the profoundest thinkers on the troubles of our times have pointed out a peril involved in scientific animal experimentation which does not clearly face the meaning of the physical torture it is based upon, and that such residual indifference to suffering is a breeder for the gas chamber and human lamp-shade...
...power to accept or reject recommendations by Tariff Commission. At issue is recent vote by commission calling for import quotas on clothespins. President Eisenhower has twice before turned down such recommendations, but if he refuses a third time, protectionists in Congress threaten to gang up, strip him of "peril-point" veto in tariff cases...
This made little sense to uranium men, who saw as their only incentive a present-day market for their ores. Many of the small-time uranium miners who do not have contracts to sell to existing mills will fold up altogether. Such a fallout could peril future U.S. uranium supply, since some of the richest U.S. uranium lodes have been discovered by the small timers who were willing to search in the most improbable places. Said Albuquerque's E. P. Chapman Jr., one of the Southwest's top mining engineers: "The new policy kills all further exploration...