Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...barrel-jump over five people in the show's opening number. "You're wearing two 4-lb. skates and a costume weighing 25 lbs.," he notes. "In order to clear the people, I had to get my speed up to 35 m.p.h. It was a knee killer." Musicians face peril as well. Pinched nerves and muscle cramps caused by repetitive hand motions are common. Violinists suffer everything from fiddler's neck rash to complete jaw displacements. Trumpeters get neck hernias and muscle tears around their mouths. Bagpipers are prone to lung infections from fungus that grows inside the bag. Clarinetists...
...hilly precincts of Chattanooga these days, a lot of get-ahead people are doing combat against the peril of forward tongue carry. They are running through word lists, striving to keep their monosyllables crisp: "What kind of boy is George? Mean. Mean-mean-mean-mean-mean...
...crisis of Swaggart's conscience that brought peril to this empire. The evangelist confronted his sin only because Assemblies' leaders had been provided with sordid information. Their chief evidence was incriminating photos taken last fall outside New Orleans at a down-at-the-heels motel called the Travel Inn. The pictures showed a prostitute welcoming a series of men; Swaggart was seen both entering and leaving her room. According to a person present at the ten-hour session in Springfield, Swaggart confessed that he had battled an obsession with pornography since his youth and had been a periodic backslider...
...women. Having resisted the Navy policy change that put them on board, the ship's narrator-captain treats them fairly, admires their sailorly skills and forgets to his peril that they are, after all, women. An austere career man identified only as Tom or the Captain, he leads the mixed crew bravely through mutiny, internecine murder and nuclear winter, until at last he confronts the cunning of Lieut. Girard, the ship's ranking female. "She carried that greatest of all handicaps that may befall a woman," Tom laments before falling for her. "She was simply too bright for most...
After thrashing George Bush in Iowa, Bob Dole suddenly has the aura of a champion. -- Two natural adversaries, Michael Dukakis and Richard Gephardt, are in a fight for the soul of the Democratic Party. --Pat Robertson leads a moral revolt that other politicians ignore at their peril, says Essayist Garry Wills. -- Two killings in Los Angeles raise issues of race and class bias...