Word: perils
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Last week had been a time of peril, with moments such as that when the House of Representatives last year so knife-narrowly voted not to disband the drafted Army (203-202). The danger was not yet past. But the surpassing danger had been avoided-that the Congress would take action which would set group against group, labor against agriculture, Congress against President, in struggles bitter enough to disrupt the Republic...
...nation's peril must not be exploited by any individual or group for special gains...
...would make themselves felt over the weekend. By Monday morning the farm bloc was scrabbling around for a compromise. Brown stood firm. Barkley let the debate drag. The lobbyists met that night-this time with a smaller bloc of the faithful. The Administration now had the votes. The immediate peril was over...
...bomb concussion. Two of the cameras were destroyed. Ford was knocked unconscious, wounded. The result is a first-class failure to film the most difficult of all actions-a battle-but a brave attempt to make a record-quick, jerky, vivid, fragmentary, luminous-of a moment of desperate peril to the nation...
...recognition for effective use of tanks against the Jap on the Khalka River. In quick succession he became commander of the Kiev military district (1940), Chief of Staff of the Red Army (1941) then commander of the Moscow Front in October 1941, the hour of Moscow's greatest peril...