Word: imperiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That seemed to be precedent enough. The discriminatory clause in the Association's deed, said Justice MacKay, was "offensive to the public policy. It appears to me to be a moral duty to ... repel [such provisions] as fissiparous tendencies which would imperil national unity." His ruling: the discriminatory clause and all others like it (involving millions of dollars' worth of property in Ontario) were henceforth void...
...ahead on an accelerated schedule, and this week, by Jap account, an amphibious force was off the Kerama Islands, within sight of Okinawa, within 400 miles of Kyushu. If confirmed, this was clearly a preliminary to the invasion of Okinawa itself-the seizure of a base which would really imperil Japan...
This defeat delayed the Russian drive, but it did not necessarily imperil the Russian position. Behind the army of General Nikolai Vatutin lay a snow-swept steppe which offered the Germans no rich prize. By throwing all their waning strength into this battle the Germans betrayed their own fears-for the Bug, Bessarabia, the uneasy Balkans...
...shelled Vitebsk, 15 miles away, and its "escape railway" to the west. From the city and the railroad came the dull, angry answer of German salvos. Things were going badly for the Wehrmacht, but it fought on. Vitebsk was a dam; it had to be held. Its fall would imperil the strongholds of White Russia -Orsha, Mogilev, Zhlobin, Polotsk - perhaps lead to retreat beyond the prewar Polish border...
...breakdown at Khersoi would throw the Germans back to the Bug River, further imperil the troops still entrenched within the Dnieper bend. It looked like the beginning of a hard winter for Germans...