Word: perils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months scientists and newsmen in the U.S. and around the world had been speculating about the peril of "fall-out" after atomic and hydrogen explosions...
...Alexander Wiley reminded the President that the White House had "fixed up" the domestic watch industry, but had done nothing for Wisconsin cheese. Alarmed, Leverett Saltonstall spluttered that relief for his Massachusetts watchmakers had been long overdue. And Republican House Leader Charley Halleck added that, come what may, peril-point tariff protection is here to stay. After that exchange, fraught with trouble for a liberalized trade policy, Ike and the legislators got along better...
...year ago, President Eisenhower momentarily diverted attention from the peril of the atom with his "Atoms for Peace" speech before the United Nations. His proposals for an international agency to aid in the development of atomic energy for peaceful use set off an immediate wave of popular enthusiasm throughout the world...
Anti-Japanese feeling dies hard in Australia. Last week, a decade after Tojo's men were driven out of islands adjacent to the southern continent, Australians were excited anew about the "Yellow Peril." Into Rabaul Harbor came a Japanese pearling ship, its crew battened below decks, its captain a captive of Australian Planter Ray Stacey, who, with the aid of native islanders, had seized the vessel at the Feni Islands, 80 miles to the southeast. Australia accused the Japanese of violating immigration laws, but the real charge was poaching pearl shell beds in waters which the Australians insist they...
GERMANY is not a peril in itself. But should she turn to the East, we are lost. For, although there is widespread resentment in Germany over the treatment Russians have inflicted upon deported populations, it is Russia which holds in its hands all that Germany wants : its reunification first, which neither President Eisenhower, nor Sir Winston Churchill, nor M. Mendès-France can give her. One word from the Kremlin, however, could. Germany needs to export towards Eastern Europe, towards Russia, towards China. What would she not do to secure these markets? And even this...