Word: perils
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...people wanted facts-no matter how hard, cold, disillusioning. In every way they knew how, Americans asked last week-How grave the peril? How great the sacrifices? How heavy the burden? How huge the task? Franklin Roosevelt was the man they wanted the answer from...
...outcome of the present war. I wish I could agree. But those who hold such views, it seems to me, neglect entirely the time required for an effective rearmament of this country. More important still these same people, in my opinion, fail to understand the true nature of our peril. They fail to realize that we today are witnessing an event in human history analogous to the sweep of Mohammed and his followers thirteen centuries past. The inhabitants of Christian countries at that time, if they wished to preserve their own culture, their way of life, were forced to take...
...always have a hazard there. . . ."What General Marshall had in mind was the danger that some supposedly innocent tanker, tramp steamer or fishing boat on its way through the locks might suddenly turn out to be a floating time bomb. How acute, ever-present and unpredictable that peril is, the Army learned last week when its own transport, the U. S. S. Republic, docked in Panama City...
...Rubber which conducts electricity sounds like an anomaly-but such a rubber would be an advantage for airplane and truck tires, for rubber hospital floors. Reason: conducting rubber would continuously discharge static electricity, prevent it from accumulating to the point of spark peril. Static sparks in hospitals have been known to cause anesthetics to explode. In The Rubber Age, Engineer Howard E. Elden of Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp...
...argued that we are now living in these days of terrific peril for the very reason that we were too short-sighted when we fought a war a generation ago. We thought then that by a relatively minor effort we could once and for all reform the world and then forever live disarmed in peace. To my mind, if this country makes that error once again, we shall not only forego the hope of peace, but the hope of maintaining the democratic and liberal way of life we all hold dear...