Word: perils
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...issued an ominous warning that it was now barring all senior Bonn officials from traveling to and from West Berlin through its territory. It was a clear threat to West Berlin's most precious asset-its free access to West Germany-and as such, posed a potentially greater peril to the city than even the hotheaded students...
...months later, when Secretary of State Dean Rusk suggested that U.S. policy in Viet Nam was a response to the threat of Communist China, McCarthy condemned him for injecting the "yellow peril" issue into the debate. "This was the point when I decided that someone had to challenge the Administration," he says. Nobody seemed anxious to undertake that chore...
Washington, D.C., Mar. 13 - Dean Rusk sang and danced on national TV for some seven hours today. Some of his most repeated routines were "The Common Danger to Us All," "The Yellow Peril Polka," "Halt Hanoi, Harry," and the old old standby of the Johnson Administration, "Lies, Lien, Lies...
...nation's best defense is a prepared citizenry. As its name suggests, the military training that ROTC brought to the college campus was designed to create a vast body of reserve officers. The Regular Army could use these reserve officers to provide additional leadership in times of national peril. Congress assumed that the military academies could provide the officers for the small peacetime army...
...statement outlined possible escalatory moves before warning that "such measures are fraught with peril. They would substantially increase the risks of a direct military confrontation with China and the Soviet Union...