Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coast Guard, declared: "The Coast Guard's job cannot be handled with soft words and amiable gestures. . . . The Coast Guard is used to carrying out its duty with vigor and determination. . . It means business. ... If a smuggler elects to defy the command to stop, he runs a serious risk of getting hurt...
Maine. Famed as a maker of wine from grape juice, Senator Arthur Robinson Gould has been extolling temperance, has decided not to risk himself again at the polls for renomination. Senator Gould's candidate: Congressman Wallace Humphrey White Jr. of Lewiston, co-author of the Dill-White Radio Law, of the Jones-White Shipping Law. Opposing Mr. White in the June primary will be insurgent one-time Governor Ralph Owen Brewster, victor in Maine's waterpower referendum last summer (TIME, Sept...
...close match he has been known to put his fist through a windowpane. Aramendi, Vincente, Garate, Teodoro are other able players, can make Ugalde hump himself. In some Latin countries there are no nets in front of the stands because the spectators feel it would be unsportsmanlike not to risk injury by the ball which can break noses, fracture bones. The Chicago stands are protected. Sometimes the players, running for a hard get and unable to stop, climb up the wire nets like monkeys. Sometimes a fast-running foot goes through a net, annoys box-holding spectators. Unlike players...
...which often causes painful misunderstanding. Last week the millions of Spanish-blooded folk who live outside of Spain were thrilled to the marrow by a lengthy and ornate oration, the text of which had been smuggled past Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera's censors and frontier guards at risk of life and limb. These smuggled words are the very avatar of Spanish honor. They are the stenographic minutes of the successful but mercilessly suppressed plea which Don José Sanchez Guerra, four times Prime Minister of Spain, made to a court martial in Valencia, before whom he stood accused...