Word: perilousness
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...burst of exhortation called it "the new Battle of Britain." Three weeks ago he warned: "We are all in it. and upon its outcome our homes, our jobs and our children's future depends." Unless Britain wins the battle, he told a Lancashire audience, "we are in mortal peril of poverty by stages...
...Peril Overhead. Within a week an assortment of disconnected leads pointed to the rose-covered bedroom in Villa Taverna. The villa's service quarters are immediately above the bedroom, and the ambassador had noticed heavy footfalls shaking the beams as the servants went about their chores. Another random point: her breakfast coffee had always tasted bitter and metallic-so much so that she decided privately that no Italian could make American coffee, and installed her own coffeemaker. Another point: she always felt worse in the mornings; the symptoms were most acute after she had been abed...
Tiny (pop. 975) Winlock, one of the bureau's early success stories, rose above the peril of a cutback in local timbering operations, went on to find a modest new industry, i.e., a $750,000 cedar-shake processing plant, and to pay for a wide range of community improvements with more than half a million dollars worth of bonds. It also reaped considerable nonmaterial bonuses: attendance at church and community functions has tripled, and election turnouts of 90% are common...
...SELLOUT . . . THE FULL EXPOSURE OF BRITAIN'S PERIL. So read the headlines in the London Daily Express, run by crusty old (77) Lord Beaverbrook, last of the imperialists. And what was the Express so vexed about-Cyprus, Singapore, Suez? No, the deadly peril to Empire, the "mortifying and shameful act of surrender" was the British Cabinet's decision to permit The Texas Co. to buy the British-owned Trinidad...
...last week some Britons shrieked that freedom was in peril, others clucked that care must be exercised. For the first time, Britons were grappling with the problem that the U.S. had been sweating out for years amidst British taunts of "McCarthyism": the importance of a man's associations and beliefs...