Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet session of the Knesset. Only half the members were present, and four chairs at the Cabinet ministers' table stood empty. An Israeli M.P. was recalling the peril that faced his nation exactly a year before, when its troops stood ready to launch their attack on the Sinai Peninsula. A small object flew through the air from the direction of the visitors' gallery. Like the well-trained old soldier that he is, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion ducked to the floor as the missile hurtled past his snowy, hair, but nobody else moved. A second later, the tossed hand...
...power to accept or reject recommendations by Tariff Commission. At issue is recent vote by commission calling for import quotas on clothespins. President Eisenhower has twice before turned down such recommendations, but if he refuses a third time, protectionists in Congress threaten to gang up, strip him of "peril-point" veto in tariff cases...
This made little sense to uranium men, who saw as their only incentive a present-day market for their ores. Many of the small-time uranium miners who do not have contracts to sell to existing mills will fold up altogether. Such a fallout could peril future U.S. uranium supply, since some of the richest U.S. uranium lodes have been discovered by the small timers who were willing to search in the most improbable places. Said Albuquerque's E. P. Chapman Jr., one of the Southwest's top mining engineers: "The new policy kills all further exploration...
Among other peril-frought trends in the U.S., Italy's sleek, slick Couturiere Simonetta observed a "dangerous" tendency among U.S. women to ignore fashion trends and wear what they look best in. Here on her first U.S. visit since 1955, Simonetta crossly jangled her charm bracelet at a New York Timeslady and cried: "All over the country I have seen what I have never seen before . . . Where is the three-quarter sleeve? Where is the lithe waistline, the close-fitting hipline? The shorter hemline? These are not being worn, although we presented them in the last collections!" But, after...
...United States is in "deadly peril" of being forced under by "despotic dictatorship, as so many decadent democracies have been in the past," Senator Joseph S. Clark, Jr. '23 told the Harvard Young Democrats in Emerson Hall last night...