Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this reason Jacobsson warned: "When the tide turns, there must be sufficient flexibility for money rates to be eased." Moreover, underdeveloped countries that rely on inflation in more advanced countries, particularly the U.S., to increase the price of their raw materials, are now doing so at their own peril. "If the countries do not stop their inflationary movements, they will probably not be able to rely on the U.S. to save them. The U.S. has arrested inflation...
...threatened Asian flu epidemic in this country, there would probably be fewer gray hairs and ulcers in the Civil Defense Administration. Yet Americans are preparing for a disease, whose fatal effects will be negligible, with more Boy-Scout-brand energy than they have ever devoted to the nuclear peril...
...only on moving the meat. But to Gabin, a famous artist mistaken by his dull-witted companion for a house painter, the meat is an abstraction, a philosophical means of testing the cowardice of his countrymen and the wits of his enemies. After slipping their burden past one more peril, Gabin roars with immense self-appreciation: "This pig's making a genius out of me!" He unsuccessfully tries to persuade Bourvil to hijack their load and be a black-marketeer himself, instead of a mere hauler. Says Gabin: "Then you will be forced to become a boss. See where...
Among the politicians themselves, in France's third week without a government, there emerged at last a desire to end the crisis. Politicians of the left and center, bickering among themselves, became aware of a common peril. By delaying the formation of a government, anti-European groups in the Assembly, ranging from Gaullists through tax-dodging Poujadists to Communists, hoped to postpone the scheduled June 14 ratification of the Common Market and Euratom treaties...
...further said that the religious renaissance was by no means peculiar to Harvard, but a general reassertion of the premise with which the American university began, "that because a univer- sity is nonsectarian, it need not--indeed some of us believe it cannot to its peril--go further and eschew religion altogether...