Word: perils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waterline in a forward compartment, the Small made Kure, Japan, under her own power, but eight of her crew were dead, 18 injured. She was the eighth U.S. Navy vessel to strike a Communist mine. Mines, cheap to lay, hard to find and hazardous to hit, are the real peril of the Korean seas. Communists lay them at night from sampans, frigates, barges and junks. They even drift them downriver. The location and dispersion of mines on the east coast above the 38th parallel indicate that some may be sown by Russian submarines...
...Britain's defensive screen. Without it, Egypt would be in poorer shape to resist the Russians, its own restless mob, and the Israelis, whom many Egyptians still fear. The British are convinced, as they were in Iran, that the Egyptians cannot get along without them. But the peril is that, as in Iran, a government unable to deliver on its domestic promises will have to live up to its defiant speeches. In Cairo, mobs this week rioted outside the U.S. and British embassies, until police fired, wounding eight. Fury thus turned on would not be so easily turned...
Imperial Hearst. All the while, like Citizen Kane,* for whom he was the model, Hearst grew in wealth, if not in stature. The era of the Winsor McCay cartoons (against the yellow peril, the red peril, the dope peril, etc.) and the thundering Brisbanalities of the column Today, was also the era when Hearst's insatiable acquisitiveness reached its height. He added dozens of papers to his string, turned a score of U.S. cities into Hearst towns...
...small towns. Arizona's rainfall in all of 1950 was 7.5 inches, the lowest on record (in the Kansas-Missouri flood, 12 inches fell in 72 hours). Overplanting of cotton, overgrazing of cattle is depleting the ground water supply. Arizona's $300 million agricultural economy is in peril from the years of dryness, and some alarmed Arizonans fear a general exodus from the state if rain doesn't come...
...MacArthur hearing, the Kremlin learned that the end of U.S. patience was near. The Kremlin's obvious advantage is to unwind U.S. determination, take the urgency out of the West's rearmament. So the Kremlin whispered tantalizingly of peace. That is the time of peril-the time of the Truce of the Bear...