Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caesium 137, which is a genetic peril because it spreads throughout the body. ¶ Strontium 90, which affects the bones, especially of young children, because it is absorbed like calcium. ¶ Carbon 14, which has a half-life of 5,700 years and has probably risen in all living matter -3%-.6% since the beginning of nuclear weapons tests...
...American creed. But how does religion fare in the free society of the U.S.? This week four scholars-Protestant, Jewish, Roman Catholic-deal with the question in a new study sponsored by the Fund for the Republic. * All express a surprisingly common concern: U.S. religion is in more peril than U.S. freedom...
...plain fact remains that the situation would be far graver and the peril to world peace much greater if the United States Government had indulged in appeasement or procrastination...
Krock shrugged off Griswold's speech as unclear, pointedly reversed Reston-Griswold's own rhetoric to declare that "disaster can at least be invested with the virtue of awakening the sleeper to his peril." ¶When Reston said De Gaulle's ascension to power in France so threatened the U.S.'s European policy that "even the modest gains of the past are now in jeopardy," Krock clucked that this sort of "anxious disapproval" was being expressed "largely by some currently displaced foreign policy-makers of the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations," tartly added that "these American...
...reciprocal trade broadening of pacts. The report goes much further than the reciprocal trade bill passed last week by the House, wants the program to be made a permanent part of national policy, with broader presidential powers and a reconsideration of such hobbling provisions as escape clauses and peril points. To answer protectionists, the report points out that 4,500,000 U.S. workers depend directly on foreign trade, contribute to a trade surplus of $6 billion a year. While "it is unavoidable that some of our imports will compete with segments of domestic production . . . American industry is well able...