But that was more easily said than done, and Bahzell knew his friend's temper was growing dangerously short.

"If we find ourselves dangerously short of money, perhaps you can set up a deal," said Owen, smiling.

He discovered the 24 islanders (14 adults and 10 children) were dangerously short of food.

As it was, 614 would be dangerously short of reaction mass when it next tried to land.

Riker took this latest light show as a signal that time was growing dangerously short.

But opponents say that even those safeguards fall dangerously short.

A dangerously short distance in any case between these people and what they feared.

Above all, they own Russia's major private banks - many of which have been caught dangerously short by the current financial crisis.

The fort was dangerously short of both arrows and naphtha.

And serious leaders in the U.S. have been in dangerously short supply.