Word: perilously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...storm of cries from the G.O.P. National Committee. The Chicago affair was a near sellout with Ike's name on the billboard, and his thought-of cancellation seemed to confirm the suspicions of discouraged Midwest Republicans that Ike does not care much about the party's peril in this year's congressional elections. After the complaints deluged the White House, Ike changed his mind, laid plans to turn up at Chicago in time to deliver a 15-or 20-minute speech, head back to Washington the next morning...
...peril to the U.S., says the report, lies in the meeting of two separate dangers. These are 1) the Communist threat, striving with a combination of missile rattling and peace propaganda to dominate the U.S. and the free world; 2) the city-killing potential of new thermonuclear weapons...
...brain concussion cannot tolerate alcohol for a long time afterward. Others cannot tolerate it if they have taken antihistamine or ataractic drugs. It is not that the drugs themselves are dangerous, but that individuals with abnormal sensitivity react dangerously. Steady use of barbiturates is a more predictable peril, says Dr. Meerloo: it makes the midbrain more sensitive to the intoxication of chronic alcoholism, and many alcoholics, far from being put to sleep by barbiturates, become wildly excited after taking them...
...into the streets one evening last week. Tatterdemalion crowds surged and shoved into the battlemented Castel Nuovo, where the kings of Anjou once ruled the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. A huge sign went with them: "For the love of your Naples, do not resign! The ship is in peril, you must stay at the helm!" The mob was out in defense of Naples' Mayor Achille Lauro, the flamboyant millionaire shipowner and Monarchist whose freewheeling administration has won him the title of Il Re del Mezzogiorno ("The King of the South...
...take sides" with the Anti-Vivisection Society, or with either opposition in the recent legal breaching of the Animal Rescue Societies by the Medical Laboratories in Massachusetts. It is to say that some of the profoundest thinkers on the troubles of our times have pointed out a peril involved in scientific animal experimentation which does not clearly face the meaning of the physical torture it is based upon, and that such residual indifference to suffering is a breeder for the gas chamber and human lamp-shade...