Word: perilousness
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Detainee 063 was never physically harmed. He put his health in peril with his refusal to eat and take fluids. His treatment should be put in the proper context. Prisoners at Guantánamo are fed meals that accord with their religious beliefs, they are given Korans and prayer rugs, and their health is monitored. Torture camp? Sounds more like a resort...
...PERIL Taking over after Antietam, he led the Union into one of the greatest slaughters of the war, losing 13,353 men outside Fredericksburg...
...PERIL "My plans are perfect," he said before being knocked senseless and thoroughly outgeneraled at Chancellorsville, Lee's strategic masterpiece...
...PERIL He won the great Union victory at Gettysburg and turned the tide of the war, but let Lee's battered army escape to Virginia, where it would fight again...
...PERIL Despite suffering enormous casualties, he relentlessly pounded Lee's army through Virginia to the siege at Petersburg and, finally, Appomattox...