Word: perils
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...Navy announced that she was missing. Then, in the same waters where the Squalus vanished two years ago (saved: 33; lost: 26), another drama of succor unfolded. The salvage boat Falcon, with divers who had gone down to the Squalus at 240 feet, had labored there at the peril of their lives; other submarines, destroyers, tugs, airplanes, searchlights when night fell-all were there...
...root of the matter, many thought, were the words of Conservative Sir Herbert Geraint Williams in the House of Commons: "Because you have a Prime Minister of great genius and capacity for inspiration, that is no reason his acts should go without criticism. It is a real peril to this country that Mr. Churchill should be regarded as a man beyond challenge...
...seems appropriate at this time of peril that we return to the only prayer that was used for every President from George Washington to Calvin Coolidge...
...Kallen of Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Although Earl Russell is now safely berthed as a lecturer in the Barnes Foundation art school near Philadelphia, the authors believe the triumph of "fundamentalist clerics, machine politicians and professional patriots" who had him ousted from C.C.N.Y. remains a peril to freedom of learning in the U.S. Some of their points...
...City College consists of males, chaste or unchaste, some of them over 18, with morals poised so delicately that, if Bertrand Russell expounds mathematics or philosophy, they are impelled to abduct and rape, while if he does not appear in their midst, woman's virtue knows no peril...