Word: perils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody doubted it: Harvard needed a new bridge. The Boston Post suggested in 1911 that "somebody with a good, plump bank account might well devote some of its surplus age to the building of a safe and artistic Harvard bridge. That ramshackle old contraption is a peril and disgrace to the two cities that appear to be waiting for it to fall into the Charles, which it will probably do some fine day. Where is the millionaire who will immortalize himself and serve posterity by building a new bridge...
Acknowledgement of the common peril was more important to Dulles than the details of what would be done about it. The problem was to find the words that others might sign. The formula finally drawn was somewhat less specific than Dulles would have liked, but it was as much as Eden felt he could defend before British opinion...
...rallied in protest against the choice of McCarthy "to speak for Texans" at the state's hallowed San Jacinto Day celebration on April 21. In Manhattan this week, the Senator, recovering from laryngitis and a virus bug, got back in voice to describe the nation's Red peril to Francis Cardinal Spellman, who, with about 6,000 New York City cops, roundly applauded McCarthy at a communion breakfast. "You said it, Joe!" shouted the cops. "Keep giving it to them...
...Korea to Southeast Asia is troubled by Communist efforts at penetration . . . There is only one defense-a defense compounded of eternal vigilance, sound policies and high courage. The U.S. is a member of a goodly company who have in the past stood together in the face of great peril and have overcome it. If we are true to that past, we can face the future with hope and confidence...
...position but of glancing blows against a disappearing enemy. Mount your strength, and the enemy disappear like sparrows. It is a war where the countryside changes hands every night and where the peril of a road can be measured by whether it reopens each day at 7 or 9 or 10 a.m. All over the country each morning, as regularly as shaving, a handful of French or Vietnamese must venture in jeep, truck or tank down the roads, looking for mine or ambush before the buses and beer trucks and handcarts can travel, before the long lines of patient...