Word: brink
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...knew they had had a narrow escape, that their turn might come any time. Truly they are, in Slansky's words, men of two faces. One face is turned toward the brazen sun of power and privilege, the other toward the abyss on whose brink they stand...
...University asked the conductor of the College choir, Archibald T. Davison '06 to fill the post. Davison accepted, on the condition--that he get no pay. Coasting on the brink of bankruptcy the HGC agreed. Their leader for 22 years, Davison was "Doc" to a whole generation of Harvard singers...
...therefore the President's) responsibility reaches into the farthest corners of the earth. It faces the greatest threat to free societies in a thousand years. It must deal not only with governments, with armies, with billions of money, with staggering weapons of destruction on the brink of war; it must deal with the souls of men-must, in Eisenhower's words, "persuade the world by peaceful means to believe the truth." That is the measure of the job which a majority of the American people has entrusted to Dwight Eisenhower...
When the $7,500,000 Williamsport Wire Rope Co. found itself on the brink of bankruptcy in 1932, Bethlehem Steel Corp., which held 17% of Williamsport's stock, advised the company to go into receivership. In 1937, Federal Judge Albert W. Johnson ordered that the company be sold. He approved a bid of $3,300,000 from Bethlehem Steel, and wiped out stockholders' interests. Bethlehem's total cash outlay in the deal was only $89,000. It paid the balance by turning over $1,200,000 par value of Wire Rope's bonds, and certain bank...
...jerk of the 120-ft. nylon rope brought Dave up short, painfully bruising and wrenching his ribs, and dragged Jim, ax and all, to within a foot of the brink. An hour later, Dave dragged himself back up. He and Jim found a cave in a crevasse and spent the night there. The feet of both were frostbitten, Dave's so badly that when he rapped them with his knuckles "the sound was hollow and wooden...