Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then descended the iron Brazilian press censorship which is as thoroughgoing as any in the world. European and U. S. correspondents cabled as little as possible to their editors, judiciously deciding that civil commotion would have to become civil war in fact before it would be worth while to risk their skins...
Professor Wild, speaking over the Colonial network, criticized sharply the new legislation as a peace-maintaining factor. Weighing the efforts of Congress to keep this country out of war, he said: "A simple reiteration of the legal fact that Americans travel and trade in wartime at their own risk that the government will not give them blanket protection in whatever they undertake, and the direction of energy into prevention of war now instead of this naive effort to keep us unentangled by a hodge-podge of embargoes and prohibitions these steps would be far more effective...
Since any riot whatsoever may be termed a breach of the peace and undergraduates who indulge in them take the inescapable risk of running afoul of the law as well as the college authorities, it is evident that riots are an unprofitable way of spending a spring evening, and often lead the innocent student to unforeseen and disastrous ends. But, compared to riots that occur during strikes, and communist battles every May day, a student "riot" can hardly be called a serious affair. Despite several gallons of water spread over the streets of Cambridge, and a few parking signs transferred...
...addiction, the chimpanzees showed few signs of discomfort except yawning, moping, sweating, salivation. But if deprived at more advanced stages, they became acutely miserable, carried the syringe to the keeper, ignoring food which had been offered as an alternative choice. Dr. Yerkes declared that, if he had cared to risk the apes' lives for the sake of a sensational stunt, he could easily have taught them to inject themselves. He proposes to experiment with medicinal cures which, if successful, may also prove successful with humans...
...felt that it is unfair to the man to keep him here at a low salary when he might earn more at another university. If a man stays here up to the age of 40 or more, the University feels obliged to retain him for life, even at the risk of keeping out a better...