Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stake & Risk. Overnight, they were given enormous significance by Alf M. Landon's decision to take a hand in the campaign. Pressed by his partisans to put some punch into his slumping campaign, the cautious Republican nominee had suddenly turned gambler, prepared to risk greatly for a great stake...
...prize was not a Republican victory in the State. Whether he went to Maine or not, that was already as good as won. But if he stayed home, the victory would be wholly the Party's. If he went, it would be his, too. And, dramatized by the risk he ran, he would hold the national spotlight as he emerged in a Maine speech as a fighting candidate...
...York's great Mohawk Valley, sent feed prices up as much as 70%. Hard as it might be on city folks, it looked as if the dairyman would have to get more for his milk from the processors and distributors. And he needed it bad enough to risk the physical and financial hazards of a milk strike...
...Post-Intelligencer did not appear on newsstands at all last week. When local members of the Guild struck there fortnight ago to protest the discharge of two old-time P.I. staffmen who had been active in the Guild, the typographical workers elaborately explained that they dared not risk their necks passing through the picket lines, stayed away also. Under Labor Boss Dave Beck, moving force of Seattle's Central Labor Council, a cordon of demonstrators from the American Federation of Teachers (see p. 35) and the Teamsters', Lumbermen's and Longshoremen's Unions tied the plant...
...citizens still in Madrid, most of whom have commercial interests there, gallant Mr. Wendelin gave notice that at any moment he might be obliged to close the U. S. Embassy and that every U. S. citizen who had not left the Capital before then would remain at his own risk...