Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subcommittee recessed until next month after hearing Dr. Frank Stanton, president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, say there is always the danger of connivance in high-stake quiz shows...
...more serious objection to the old seats was that they were of wood. With the great crowds that football and baseball attracted the weak wooden stands were no longer safe. And there was the ever-present danger of fire. The H.A.A. had a crew of firemen and often a fire engine at every contest. During the spring of 1903, only the quick thinking of an usher avoided disaster when a section of the grandstand caught fire during a baseball game. The heroic usher restrained a panicked spectator from spreading the alarm through the packed stands...
...spokesman for the U.S. delegation hailed the report as one that would "enable the Security Council to better understand the danger that confronts Laos...
Dick Colman, Nassau's head coach, is bound to agree with Sebo's statement about the danger of being smug in the Ivy League. As a matter of fact, Colman has uttered the same words. Last Saturday afternoon, somewhere in the mud at Palmer Stadium, the Tigers almost lost a football game to last-place, winless (in the League) Brown University...
Last week, totting up early-bird applications to cover President Eisenhower's planned visit to Russia next spring, Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty warned the U.S. press that it stood in danger of defeating its own purpose. Some 500 newsmen, he said, including 16 from the Associated Press, 16 from the major television networks, and 150 from foreign reporters based in the U.S., have already bid for space aboard the press plane -which can accommodate 107. Also among the applicants were several correspondents' and publishers' wives, billed as "feature writers...