Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inge, familiar with peril, wandered to the lake [at the time Audie and Bill were struggling in the water] and immediately recognized an emergency. Not standing on ceremony, she stripped quickly to her bra and shorts before diving into the lake. She was no more exposed than had she been wearing a two-piece bathing suit. The sprint through the chilly water exhausted her too. But the three, acting as a team, took turns in holding each other up at intervals until they made the shore...
...bombs and paratroops to blot out the last vestiges of independence in Tibet, and the Dalai Lama's spectacular escape into India (see FOREIGN NEWS), brought home the point for would-be neutralists in Asia and Africa that they stay neutral in the cold war to their ultimate peril...
From outside comes a peril more dire, if not more wearing, than hunger or boredom or claustrophobia. Nazi boots clump on the cobblestone sidewalks, and the heehaw of the paddy wagon siren sounds in the night; from their window the fugitives watch, horrified, as the greengrocer across the street, and the two Jews he has been harboring, are hauled off. In a scene more tension-packed than anything Alfred Hitchcock ever devised, two Germans search the factory by night after a burglar has broken in. As the refugees huddle breathlessly in the loft, the suspicious Germans stretch out their investigation...
...social unrest. De Gaulle himself, despite his prestige, probably could not have dared subject them to parliamentary debate. As it was, the prevailing French response seemed to be one of pained resignation rather than revolt. In France's mood of renewed national pride, and of reluctant awareness of peril, Paris' Le Monde pointed the moral: "There is no reform without effort and no recovery without sacrifice...
...contrast to its star shortage, Bombay alone has 225 producers, including Actress Madhubala, 25. Unlike Madhubala's secure stardom, her role as a producer is fraught with peril. An Indian producer can afford to stay in business only by setting up a new company for each movie, then quickly dissolving it one jump ahead of the creditors. Chief reason: most of the movie capital comes from tightfisted film distributors-and the distributors are in turn bilked by the exhibitors, whose 33% chunk of total movie revenue is topped only by the government's 36%. For a producer, only...