Word: perils
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...place where he had so often shown himself, like any citizen in his rough tunic, his pants tucked into his boots, before the millions-on Lenin's tomb in the Red Square. So one of the clearest hints of Stalin's emotion and Moscow's peril last week was the closing of the tomb. Millions of Russians had made the pilgrimage to this shrine. Its closing suggested that Communism's holy relic, the remains of Lenin, had been sent away from the city...
MOSCOW--Soviet troops are clinging fiercely to the western and southern approaches to Moscow, the High Command reported today, but the Germans have created such a peril that all able-bodied citizens in the Smolensk district west of the capital were called out to fight...
...well to look for a moment at this campaign for intervention as based upon the postulate of imminent peril to this country from what is going on in Europe...
...14th week of the war against the Fascists, the nation was in great peril. Even if the Red defenses could by sheer will power hurl back the enemy, Russia would have to start building all over again. And if the defenses failed, then there was nothing to look forward to but a world beyond imagining, in which a face was not even a face unless it was German...
From now on, if German or Italian vessels of war enter the waters the protection of which is necessary for American defense, they do so at their own peril. The orders which I have given as Commander in Chief of the United States Army and Navy are to carry out that policy-at once." He promised that in defense waters the Navy would convoy ships of any flag choosing to join such convoys...