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I don't know about you, but I've always thought the potential peril for Bush wasn't "younger, wilder" but "older, milder"--that is, he's not nearly as conservative as the GOP would like to believe.
She publishes the Pentagon Papers at great peril to the company and stares down Richard Nixon over Watergate when he threatens to revoke the company's lucrative broadcast licenses.
Toward the end of his life, he wrote: If egotism for a moment is pardonable, no false shame deters me from avowing that, though I have lived away from America upwards of forty-six years, I feel, to this hour, in writing English, that I am writing a foreign language, and that, if not incessantly on my guard, I am in peril of stumbling.
But as the Newt peril fades, Democratic differences are becoming clearer.
Confidence in the innate superiority of the Caucasian race--and, within that race, of its Anglo-Saxon variant--coexisted with paranoia about the yellow peril and black "savagery."