Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newfoundland you can start an argument over confederation with Canada faster than you can say Annieopsquotch.* Independent Newfoundlanders voted against becoming a Canadian province in 1869, sang political ditties like "Come near at your peril, Canadian wolf," stubbornly snowed under every party that proposed confederation...
...Louis Swift Jr., whose husband is one of the porker-packing Swifts, got holy Ned from the Chicago Animal Welfare League for placing a pig in peril. She put a pig in a pen at the Galloping Hills Horseshow, and blue-blooded jumpers jumped in & out. Soon a humane officer turned up at the Swift mansion-"stormed into the house and was very rude," said Mrs. Swift. He got the gate. "There's no one who loves animals more than I do," cried Mrs. Swift to the press. "I wouldn't hurt that pig for anything-took...
There were plenty of other crusades-for woman suffrage, against child labor and the yellow peril, etc. (The Journal gracefully took no credit for the Spanish-American War.) If a Hearst reporter had not dropped a chance remark to a Manhattan Borough president in 1915, the Triborough Bridge might never have been built. The politician told the reporter the idea of the bridge was "a wonderful thing. . . . Write me a memo on it." And 21 years later, the bridge was there...
...over wide areas a vast quivering mass of tormented, hungry, careworn and bewildered human beings gaze on the ruins of their cities and scan the dark horizon for the approach of some new peril, tyranny or terror. Among the victors there is a babel of voices, among the vanquished a sullen silence of despair...
...Sunday, for the first time in weeks, the President strolled leisurely over to the First Baptist Church at 16th and O Streets, enjoying the 15-minute walk in the bright morning sunshine. The sermon topic: "America's Peril." In the cool of the evening he drove to the Lincoln Memorial in an open touring car, heard the National Symphony Orchestra play a presidential request number (Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik) from a barge anchored in the Potomac...