Word: perils
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There are other perils-a dissolving perspective of paradox. Man's knowledge is limited, but not completely limited, since he has some sense of the limits-and, to that degree, transcends them. And, as he transcends them, he seeks to understand his immediate situation in terms of a total situation-i.e., God's will. But man is unable to understand the total situation except in the finite terms of his immediate situation. "The realization of the relativity of his knowledge subjects him to the peril of skepticism. The abyss of meaninglessness yawns on the brink...
...suspicion and smearing, so this committee could intimidate citizens from exercising their constitutional right of petition and thus stifle opposition to legislative policies which it favored. Such a committee could go beyond its avowed purpose of investigating totalitarian movements and further threaten those civil liberties which are already in peril...
...Will There Be War?" For Winston Churchill, it was an occasion of triumph. He had lived to hear the Labor government, which had once jeered him down, come to the realization of Soviet peril which he had voiced at Fulton, 22 months before. He had seen it also follow his lead for Western unity. But he was not quite satisfied. He stomped out to the lobby after Bevin's speech, grumping: "I want something bigger, something bigger." Next day, before packed galleries (Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip had come to listen), Churchill produced it: a proposal for one last...
...Kingdom is to be tattooed with these odious deformities . . . the noise and stench of locomotive steam-engines are to disturb the quietude of the peasant, the farmer and the gentleman. ... If [railroads] succeed they will . . . destroy all the relations which exist between man and man . . . and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress...
...Morningside Heights. Hu dated a Chinese Vassar girl, but married the village girl to whom his family had engaged him in childhood. Ambassador Hu's wife, too shy and unconfident to come to the U.S., stayed behind in Peking. When the Japanese came, she rescued at great peril what she knew was most precious to her husband: 70 crates of rare books and manuscripts...