Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German funsters, like Russians, are still willing to risk their necks with political wisecracks. A recent conundrum which they thought sidesplitting: "What is the difference between Russia and Germany?" Answer: "Russia is much colder...
...those with no head for heights, all mountain climbers are crazy; but climbers divide themselves into two schools : sportsmen who try to reach their objective with a minimum of risk, and danger-loving fatalists who want to do it the hard...
Next day the natives shuddered. Mt. Eiger was enveloped in a swirling froth of snow. In spite of the fact that Swiss authorities had warned that local guides could no longer be asked to risk their lives trying to rescue Eigerwand climbers, two natives clambered to the summit over the usual route, peered down the overhanging wall when the storm let up for a moment, saw no one, returned to the valley. The following morning, as spectators ran to the telescopes for a morbid view of frozen corpses, the quartet calmly walked into Kleine Scheidegg. They had conquered the Eigerwand...
...attacks, Opposition forces last week demanded that the Chamberlain Government employ naval protection for British merchantmen venturing into Leftist Spam's ports. Bluntly, the Prime Minister replied: to bring the British navy into play would mean active intervention in the conflict, and his Government were determined not to risk the general European war which might result. Furthermore, Mr. Chamberlain admitted, almost casually, "While the war lasts we must expect a succession of these incidents...
These accusations, foreign observers thought, were absurd. For the Chinese to check the Japanese advance at possible sacrifice of half a million lives would be a monstrous pyrrhic victory. Besides, dike-cutting is the blackest of Chinese crimes, and the Chinese Army would hardly risk universal censure for slight tactical gains. But this apparent innocence did not keep the Chinese from countercharging that Japanese had caused the flood by shelling and bombing the dikes near Kaifeng...