Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes, scattering Christian Democrat leaflets urging the listeners to vote; the tolling of St. Peter's eight-foot bell and the music of the Vatican's band stirred the throng, whose banners read "Christ or Death." With raised hands, the Pope cried: "This year of anxiety and peril is the harbinger of world events which, perhaps, will be irreparable. . . . The great hour of Christian conscience has struck! . . . There can be no room ... for pusillanimity or for the irresoluteness of those who believe they can serve two masters. . . . We invite you, Romans, Italians, peoples of the world, to union...
...might have to use force or watch all its policies go down the drain. The military had. They argued that the U.S. should draw a definite line, to be defended with troops, guns and planes, and flatly warn the Soviet Union that it would cross that line at its peril. The risks were obvious. And what if the Soviet forces never stepped across the line but simply outflanked it, as in Czechoslovakia...
There are other perils-a dissolving perspective of paradox. Man's knowledge is limited, but not completely limited, since he has some sense of the limits-and, to that degree, transcends them. And, as he transcends them, he seeks to understand his immediate situation in terms of a total situation-i.e., God's will. But man is unable to understand the total situation except in the finite terms of his immediate situation. "The realization of the relativity of his knowledge subjects him to the peril of skepticism. The abyss of meaninglessness yawns on the brink...
...suspicion and smearing, so this committee could intimidate citizens from exercising their constitutional right of petition and thus stifle opposition to legislative policies which it favored. Such a committee could go beyond its avowed purpose of investigating totalitarian movements and further threaten those civil liberties which are already in peril...
...Will There Be War?" For Winston Churchill, it was an occasion of triumph. He had lived to hear the Labor government, which had once jeered him down, come to the realization of Soviet peril which he had voiced at Fulton, 22 months before. He had seen it also follow his lead for Western unity. But he was not quite satisfied. He stomped out to the lobby after Bevin's speech, grumping: "I want something bigger, something bigger." Next day, before packed galleries (Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip had come to listen), Churchill produced it: a proposal for one last...