Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These charges, Rome thought, laid the "juridical basis" for an Italian walkout from the 27-nation phalanx of Nonintervention, raised the risk of Italian action as heedless of Geneva as the Ethiopian war. Meanwhile in Spain, the big Russian air fleet of the Leftists machine-gunned Rightist trenches in one fell swoop along 330 miles of the fighting front...
...that we almost didn't come home at all. And when we did arrive in Cambridge weeks late, the Dean's office was nasty,--very nasty indeed. University Hall drew itself up and puffed in indignation to think that anyone could have a good time. We've dared not risk it since...
...well that he can turn them over to relatives who occasionally appear two-and-a-half years after the subject's death. Such relatives always get the bodies they want, for the supply of cadavers now is so ample that no medical school or anatomical board will risk a quarrel for possession...
...Fonck, who on one occasion had fired the canon, was easing away in a power dive to shake off some Fokkers behind him when one of the empty 37 mm. shell cases jammed his stick control, so that he could not pull out of the dive. At the risk of falling out, Fonck threw off his safety belt in order to reach the stick mounting, pry the shell case loose, finally succeeded, under fire from German planes above...
...Labor ladder he climbed until at 34 the boy from Lanarkshire became a master of debate who knew more about the coal industry than most operators, was vice president of United Mine Workers, biggest union in the land. When U.M.W.'s President John L. Lewis prepared to risk the future of his C.I.O. last summer in a great drive to organize Steel's 550,000 workers (TIME, June 15 et seq.), pious and persuasive Philip Murray was his choice for chairman of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee...