Word: perils
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...never had the peril seemed so black for the United Nations. The Nazis were near the Volga and the Nile. Another grand plunge and they would have the Caucasus, the Middle East and an avenue to junction with Japan...
...leading edges, keeps them at 60°F, no matter how far below zero the outside temperature goes. Satisfactory tests in far-northern climates lead engineers to hope that the long search is finished. If so, the U.S. can relax about what was once the No. 1 peril of winter flying...
...Yellow Peril." Standpat "Yellow Peril" opponents of Oriental immigration have been unable to build up 105 Chinese into a menace. Their spokesman, Representative A. Leonard Allen of Louisiana, argues that repeal of the Chinese ban would immediately generate pressure for the admission of all other Orientals (except, of course, Japs). Representative Allen goes further to argue that tens of thousands of Chinese from Hong Kong might come in under the British quota. One reply was a new bill providing that 75% of the quota must be residents of China proper...
...somewhat appalled by the spectacle of an English citizen assaulting the former President of the United States. But I would remind the reader that the problems Mr. Hoover discusses are bone of my bone as well as of his, and that in our common peril I believe it is my right to differ with Mr. Hoover in print as I did with Mr. Chamberlain over Munich...
...faces the Orient. Isolationists still nourish their conviction that the U.S. has no business in Europe's messes, still argue privately that anyway Japan is the only one who has yet attacked us. Anglophobes suspect Britain, Red haters fear Russia. The Hearst press has not forgotten the Yellow Peril. Further, a considerable number of sense-making military officers and civilian observers believe and can show that Japan is more dangerous than many Americans realize...