Word: perils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Expedit decree (it is not expedient), a Catholic could "neither elector nor elected" be; Pius deemed it a surrender for Catholics to join in the affairs of the determinedly anti-church regime, which had shorn, the Vatican of property and political authority in Italy. But as the political peril to religion developed on the left, the ban slowly relaxed. At the end of World War I, a scholarly Sicilian priest named Luigi Sturzo persuaded Pope Benedict XV to let him form a political party of Catholic laymen. Don Luigi promised that he would resolutely avoid church control, and he kept...
...Capitol Hill, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned that "all of Southeast Asia is today in great peril, and if Indo-China should be lost there would be a chain reaction throughout the Far East ..." Treasury Secretary George Humphrey spoke adamantly against any cuts in the program and, in the process, dashed hopes for a balanced budget: "I am distressed that we cannot balance the budget this year . . . the risks that would involve in our security would simply be too great . . ." Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, JCS Chairman Omar Bradley and MSA Director Harold Stassen echoed the Administration argument...
Stevenson had criticized the proposed work of the special assistant to the Attorney-General, who is supposed to keep special records on state employees and find "reasonable doubt" as to their loyalty. Such activity, he said, might "lead to grave peril to the reputations of innocent people...
Lightening the Ship. Great Britain is still in economic peril, he went on. In fact, he had to admit, much of the improvement came not as the result of his last budget, but of lucky breaks in the flow of world economics. Butler's estimates last year had, in fact, proved ludicrously wrong (he had figured on a surplus of ?510 million and had realized only ?88 million). Britain was faced, as brutally as ever, with the choice of producing more and selling more overseas or perishing...
When Thompson died at 48 (in 1907, of tuberculosis), his sole belongings were "a few old pipes and old pens lying in a tin lid" and a nondescript collection of clippings from the Daily Mail (e.g., "Mikado Airs on Japanese Warship-Amusing Scenes"; "The Milk Peril, What Hinders Reform"). But by then, thanks in good part to Editor Meynell (who lived on until 1948), he stood second only to William Butler Yeats as the foremost lyricist...