Word: risk
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dark. If she joins Germany she will lose her independence and become but a vassal of that power. If she maintains her neutrality she stands in danger of destruction. As regards the present there seems little choice. In the long run, however, it behooves the Dutch to brave the risk of opposition. A crushed Holland will in the end find liberation. A Germanized Holland will ingloriously terminate a great page of history and will leave a blot upon the Dutch name which nothing in the future can ever erase...
Those who have not made application for boxes to W. R. Odell, 9 Linden street, by this evening will run the risk of having no box assigned to them...
...sacrifice our petty criticisms to the need of maintaining a united front. The English political genius will no doubt solve the present problem. Yet the occurrence of the break means a distinct loss. Although America might patch up like internal difficulties, it nevertheless can not afford to risk a disorganization such as is threatening England. A house divided against itself must surely fall. Stand intelligently behind your government and avoid that criticism which breeds dissension, political discord, and the poisoning of our entire effort...
Criticism of the Administration often calls forth accusations of disloyalty and failure to support the Government. Whoever ventures to oppose the President runs the risk of being termed a friend to Germany. Many opinions, to be sure, are expressed because of political opposition or personal prejudice, yet some arise from patriotic motives. To distinguish the useless and even disloyal criticism from the genuine is often difficult. There is, however, a fundamental difference in that the latter is directed entirely to the benefit of the nation, and is usually the sentiment of many people. In advising a policy which Mr. Wilson...
...that men in service consider luxuries. He has had a good bed, plenty of tobacco and shower baths. The Harvard undergraduate has gone to bed every night knowing that he would probably get up safe in the morning. He has not worried about life. He has not take any risk. And, Yet he doesn't want to get up an hour earlier. At Plattsburg and at Barre last summer he did it, and it didn't hurt...