Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Isolation is unfair to our own people and impossible. . . . Specific pledges not to go to war under any condition risk encouraging belligerents to attempt aggression...
...very sick man flashed on a screen. Continued Dr. Beck: "This man [on the screen] is a surgeon, a fellow of this College, who came to me because he knew of my work and had confidence in it. He had diabetes and other complications which made him a bad risk. But he said, 'You get me off the table and I'll do the rest...
...with last night?" The versatility of the pair is so great that the audience is highly taxed to muster the corresponding versatility that is required. As for the rest of the plays we cannot say. But all you playgoers, take your chance along with the CRIMSON Playgoer; the risk is very small...
...insurance brokers were suddenly swamped with an avalanche of customers. While $500 of insurance against postponement of the Coronation could at first be had for $20, latecomers were obliged to pay $130. Finally the market became so top-heavy that brokers were unwilling to take at any price the risk of what Edward VIII might do. In the eyes of British businessmen he had ceased last week to be the "Empire Salesman" and had become a most unsettling factor in trade...
...name of religion, every class-conscious English worker must be laughing in their faces." It was Journalist Radek who, until a few short weeks ago, made for Joseph Stalin trenchant verbal replies to Adolf Hitler, for the Soviet Dictator has had no stomach to speak out himself and risk war with Germany. Of Hitler, scathing Radek has said: "The donkey's ears stick out! His Nazi doctrine is utter humbug. Non sensical!" Last week Communists were saying that should brilliant Karl Radek, the Walter Lippmann of the Kremlin, be shot there is no Red able to succeed...