Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists tried to raise a Red flag over the city hall. At that point the Reds, having completed their test run, seemed ready to take a breather and check results. The Communist-dominated labor confederation sent a letter to the Premier saying they were anxious "to avoid the peril of a civil...
...Delayed Peril. Dr. Muller has often said that physicians should go easy with X rays, to avoid "genetic deaths." Far more dangerous, obviously, is the use of atomic energy, which gives off floods of X rays (gamma rays). "When an atomic bomb . . . kills 100,000 people directly," Dr. Muller says, "enough mutations may have been implanted in the survivors . . . to cause at least as many genetic deaths . . . dispersed throughout the population over . . . thousands of years...
...oldest baubles, the diamond, may help protect him against his newest peril. This week the U.S. Bureau of Standards announced that diamonds, size for size, are 1,000 times more sensitive to dangerous radiation than the famous Geiger counter...
Deeply disturbed, Cliatt gets him out and gradually becomes the local protagonist for civil liberties. Cliatt's attempts to rouse the people to their peril ends up in a drubbing at a revivalist meeting from which only Cliatt's conscience emerges clean and whole. A-Revolutionary War episode at Fredericksville is neatly interlaced to provide the historical perspective of the little man struggling almost alone for the common good...
...Another peril of democracy as a religion is that, without a more inclusive religious faith, we identify our particular brand of democracy with the ultimate values of life. This is a sin to which Americans are particularly prone. . . . There are no historic institutions, whether political, economic or religious, which can survive a too uncritical devotion. . . . But even if our democracy were more perfect than it is ... devotion to democracy would still be false as a religion. It tempts us ... to give a false and idolatrous religious note to the conflict between democracy and communism, for instance...