Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russia's Arkady Sobolev predictably declared that the only peril in Lebanon comes "from certain Western powers which are openly preparing armed inter vention there." But when the matter came to a vote, the Soviet Union, instead of imposing an expected veto, merely abstained as the Security Council voted 10 to 0 to investigate the charges that the U.A.R. was pouring men, guns and munitions into tiny Lebanon. Reportedly, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser had asked Russia to withhold its veto: he himself was not yet ready to involve his restless Syrian satellite in reckless adventures...
...hour of peril for our country and the Republic, I have turned to the most illustrious of all Frenchmen, to the man who, during the darkest years of our history, was our leader in the reconquest of liberty and who, having secured national unanimity around himself, refused dictatorship in order to establish the Republic . . . I am asking General de Gaulle to confer with the Chief of State and to examine with him what, within the bounds of republican legality, is immediately required for a government of national safety, and what can be done within a reasonable period of time thereafter...
...most clamor for De Gaulle, it is significant that his appeal has always cut across party lines (except among the Communists). When France's allies consider what direction France might now take, they would prefer most the continued existence of the present regime, if roused by the common peril it resolved its differences. Otherwise London and Washington would prefer a De Gaulle who took power constitutionally* to 1) a popular front in which the Communists took part or 2) a military rule responding to mob appeal...
...December, lasted only three weeks when the price dropped back, subsequently fell 2? more. Demand is still sluggish at the 25?-a-lb. level asked by major domestic producers, and Western Congressmen are still talking about a sick industry and pressing for a 4?-a-lb. tariff, placing the "peril point" where the tariff would go into effect at 30? (TIME, Feb. 10). While producers feel that the users' inventory liquidation is about over, higher copper prices can come only with a pickup in demand by major copper consumers...
Sulfa drugs and antibiotics have worked miracles against most kinds of germs, but with one species, Staphylococcus aureus, their too-liberal use has backfired. Last week US. physicians were pondering massive evidence in the A.M.A. Journal showing that 1) infections acquired in hospitals are a deadly and growing peril; and 2) antiseptic methods are as important as ever...