Word: perilousness
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What do you do when your family is in peril and you cannot turn to the government for protection? The answer is that you will take security wherever you can get it. You need to find some group that will be capable of keeping you safe, and that group had better be one that can count on your loyalty just as you can count on its protection. If you are a member of my ethnic, racial or religious group, then we share at least some basic bond, which may be enough to ensure our loyalty to one another. I need...
...Instead, he looks hapless before the specter of a nuclear-armed militant clerical regime that looms beneath the veil of a peaceful nuclear energy project. Putin's massive supplies of conventional weapons to Iran, including air defense missiles and armor, have strengthened that specter - much to Russia's own peril...
...than that: they depict a bucktoothed, mentally-deficient-looking Asian character who wears his hair in a rattail-like queue. Although this hairstyle is no longer popular in Asia, this is exactly how 19th-century racist propaganda depicted the immigrants from Asia who comprised the “yellow peril.” Bronshtein neglects to mention these aspects of the T-shirt images. He also fails to place the image of the pigtailed Chinaman in a historical context. It is not only because the T-shirt image is stereotypical that it is offensive to some people, but also because...
...confident” and “strong” to describe the state of our country. We are, if I may borrow from the address that President John F. Kennedy gave from this podium 45 years ago, “in an hour of national peril...
...that fosters patriotism and stimulates growth. Instead, it holds us back. We have the most robust economy, the strongest democracy, and the most powerful armed forces in the world, and the infallibility of these facts is a common assumption throughout American society. Yet if we do not face the peril that surrounds our nation in the 21st century, even the most optimistic Americans will not be able to maintain the idealistic image of our nation...