Word: incurability
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...Admiral had been sent from Tokyo to smash the Conference and he was about to smash the Conference. By so doing he would incur for Japan the supreme risk that her defiance might stir up the Great Powers to do something at last to check the onslaught Japan launched in 1931 when she thumbed her short nose at the Briand-Kellogg Pact, made war her national policy and, withdrawing from the League of Nations in 1933, continued to advance upon China in a predatory campaign still highly successful. Perhaps there was no real risk of the tabby cat powers doing...
...willing to capitulate at 35%, asked other naval powers signatory to the Treaty of Versailles if they likewise would consent. Japan consented at once last week. Italy was noncommittal, but France resounded with fury. Once again, Paris assumed. His Majesty's Government were forcing the French Government to incur fresh German wrath and thirst for revenge by upholding the Treaty of Versailles. If it be upheld. Britain remains automatically mistress of Europe's seas, while explaining to Germany that but for unreasonable France friendly Britain would raise no objection to Germany's naval demands. Snapped the French...
Mourned His Grace recently: "I had not a care in the world before my second marriage but my position is different now. I am married to a woman who has never owed a penny in her life. She does not understand how one comes to incur debts. I am worried because the Duchess is worried. Otherwise, I would not have a single care in the world." In sombre mood last week His Grace was led out of Wormwood Scrubs Prison, promptly had himself declared bankrupt once more and vanished from London, his lawyers announcing, "The Duke of Manchester is resting...
However, any plan which arbitrarily selects one group of high schools is bound to incur the hostility of other high schools, not to mention the numerous private schools which yearly send large deputations to Harvard. The group so favored was entitled the privilege ostensibly because of the work it has done in the field of progressive education; but the problem raised by its selection over others will require delicate handling...
Though a preventive war with the support of England was unthinkable, action on the part of the other Powers might have meant chaos at home, rather than incur which threat he probably would have been quite willing to retreat to "previously prepared positions...