Word: perils
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chinese recognized Marshall's sincerity. In his own country and in a day of great military peril he had not hesitated to make similar sacrifices of "military efficiency" for the sake of democratic control. Not long after Pearl Harbor his staff had proposed far more rigid press controls. Marshall told them...
...upon life from an international point of view...no nation may live apart from other nations." Now that "the boundaries of the community in which we live have been extended to embrace the whole world," we must learn to live together. That is the dangerous thought of the 'Yellow Peril', as my classmates called me," he concluded...
...saga of the Hump was ending. This week, after three years of peril-strewn operation over the Himalayas into China, the most hazardous air route in the world practically went out of business...
...this the closest Comdr. Morison came to peril. He was on the U.S.S. Honolulu when she sustained two torpodo hits in an engagement with a Japanese task force. "One 'fish' knocked the Honolulu's bow off, and the other hit her square on the fantail, where it hung for about ten minutes, though it fortunately failed to explode." Comdr. Morison ventured to call the engagement "quite a hot fight...
...works we are committed . . . to a world united before this common peril. . . . What happened during the war . . . was not science, and its whole spirit was one of frantic and rather ruthless exploitation of the known; it was not that of the sober, modest attempt to penetrate the unknown...