Word: perilousness
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...population of 48 million were often subject to police harassment and refused permits necessary for Protestant public activities, until last month, when Italy's highest court declared this requirement unconstitutional. The Vatican is far from pleased by such relaxation of the rules, asserts that the Protestants ("this condemned peril") are using "propaganda methods that now find wide application," and calls for "most decisive defense action." Highlights of the report...
...gets the most money, however, are not all of U.S. making. Sometimes the degree of a country's exposure to military and political intrusion by the Communists is not matched by its ability to absorb dollars wisely, or its leaders' alertness to, or willingness to confront, this peril...
None of this proves, say the reporting scientists, that the earth's present "burden" of strontium 90 is an immediate peril, but neither does it prove the contrary. They suspect that the average human being contains about eight times more strontium 90. than was reported in the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 18), and they note that the amount is increasing, and may be increasing rapidly. They insist that no one knows how much is needed to damage health...
...faced here with a problem whereby great nations are faced with a great peril. Nobody, I think, can fairly dispute that fact. It is a peril that they could readily remedy if they resorted to the methods which were lawful before this Charter was adopted. Then, we wouldn't be sitting around here-perhaps somebody else wouldn't be sitting where he is, either. But those days, we hope, are past, and there has been exercised, and is being exercised, a very great restraint in the face of a very great peril. But you cannot expect that...
...past. There was high praise for Eleanor Roosevelt, who "reminded us so movingly that this is 1956 and not 1932; not even 1952; that our problems alter as well as their solutions; that change is the law of life, and that political parties ignore it at their peril." There was also a nod to Harry Truman, the spirit of '48: "I am glad to have you on my side again...