Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explanation of Britain's insistence upon limiting U. S. cruisers to 18 at the risk of disrupting the parley was as follows: If the U. S. had 21 cruisers, Japan insisted upon upping its big-cruiser strength proportionately. That prospect frightened the British Dominions, particularly Australia and New Zealand, which live in chronic dread of Japanese aggression. They informed the home government that unless Japanese cruiser strength was held down as a consequence of U. S. limitation at 18, they would build big cruisers on their own authority and thus disrupt any prospect of parity and limitation. Britain, caught...
...minds, proverbially wily, Benito Mussolini achieved one of his most remarkable, most ponderable exclamations : "Right, if unaccompanied by Might, is a vain word, and your great Machiavelli said that unarmed prophets perish!'' He concluded with these ringing words : ''Fascist Italy . . . cannot be attacked without mortal risk. Fascist Italy, fully armed, will give [he did not say to whom, meant France] her simple alternative of precious friendship or harshest hostility. . . . "Florentines! Have I changed in these eight years? Do you see any decrease in my natural pugnacity?" 'Like the lashing of the sea the roar...
...taken the precaution to revive and strengthen the disused Press Act of 1910, decreed that every obstreperous Indian newspaper must post high bonds to obey the Censor or cease publication. At one stroke this not only muzzled but stopped the presses of many provincial editors who dared not risk a large forfeiture plus the further risk of confiscation of their entire plants at the Government's pleasure. To stifle criticism further, the Viceroy used his imperial power to suspend for the remainder of 1930 the chief political bodies: the executive council and the legislative assembly...
...ballast tonnage for British shipping, gets $20,000,000 annual revenue from India. The monopolized salt is sold to Indians at prices sometimes 2,000% of production cost. Indian farmers who take cattle to the seashore at night to let them lick whatever salt is deposited, thereby run the risk of imprisonment...
...could have led, as many other saxophone leaders do, with much hopping around, moving of the saxophone and bodily shimmies, but at the risk of failing completely, I continued to play in an attitude of simple dignity...