Word: perils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University economists feel that the recent price freeze, while it will help the nation, is only a part of the solution to the inflation peril. In a statement released Saturday, these experts called the ruling only a "holding action...
More important, it was a policy which could not succeed without a united government behind it. By his truculence, by using the stick instead of the carrot, Harry Truman had started a wrangle, not a debate. He had put a great national policy in peril of being crippled by bickering...
...beyond the high-ceilinged Royal York Hotel ballroom. Within a few days he received more than 100 applauding letters from private citizens. One of them, from a retired political leader, said: "This is the speech the people of Canada have been waiting for. It sharpens the sense of our peril and our shame...
...anyone's guess, but X might well be some time in 1952, Y some time in 1954. X, therefore, was the moment of peril. But by the terms of their own calendar, the military men could not hope to be ready before...
Speaking with a resoluteness and a crisp delivery he had seldom shown before, Harry Truman laid down the course for meeting the Soviet peril "wisely . . . bravely . . . honorably," as he saw it: economic assistance "where it can be effective," military assistance "to countries which want to defend themselves," full support of U.S. obligations under the Atlantic Treaty. Said the President: "Strategically, economically and morally, the defense of Europe is part of our own defense...