Word: perils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Travelers venture along the winding dirt roads of the Chambal Valley at their peril. The sharp ravines provide good hiding places for fugitives from the law. In 1971 alone, India's notorious dacoits committed 285 murders, 352 kidnapings and 213 robberies, all within an area smaller than the state of Maryland. Arable land in the valley is obviously precious, and it is not difficult to see how disputes over ownership became blood feuds when the valley's temperamental Rajputs resorted to sudden murder over real or imagined wrongs...
...some drawbacks: once a thatched roof begins to deteriorate, birds find their way in and drive aviphobes crazy with their chirping. Some roofs have mice, too. Says Lord Compton: "Unfortunately, I'm allergic to cats, so all I can do is put out traps." A more spectacular peril is the danger from fire: a thatched roof, once touched off, explodes in flames...
...some drawbacks: once a thatched roof begins to deteriorate, birds find their way in and drive aviphobes crazy with their chirping. Some roofs have mice, too. Says Lord Compton: "Unfortunately, I'm allergic to cats, so all I can do is put out traps." A more spectacular peril is the danger from fire: a thatched roof, once touched off, explodes in flames...
...NIXON VISIT. Chou told Sihanouk that "President Nixon made good propaganda for his re-election and good propaganda for China. China must do her best to make the conception of the 'yellow peril' fade away. One of the reasons why China opens her doors is to let the Americans see there is no peril...
...miners of Buffalo Creek Hollow, many of whose kin and neighbors now lie beneath the markers that dot the rolling hills of West Virginia. The people of Buffalo Creek say that they have known for years that the slag pile was dangerous. And yet, in the face of a peril so imminent, they continued to live in the threatened valley because it was the only life they knew...