Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken place at all. It meant that the Italian force had won a crucial victory over Haile Selassie's own well-trained private guard, that Marshal Badoglio, hitherto scrupulously careful to avoid treading on French or British toes with an attack on Addis Ababa, was willing to risk everything again in a furious attempt to end the war before the Little Rains descended and bogged his armies in inaction...
...Republican nominee again, is this issue: Individualism v. the New Deal. To force that issue he must have a deciding voice in the national convention which writes the Republican platform, picks the Republican candidate. To run in California's primary, however, would have been to risk repudiation in his home State, to endanger his whole aim. Three stanch allies he had who shared his aims: Publisher George Toland Cameron of the San Francisco Chronicle; Publisher Joseph Russell Knowland of the Oakland Tribune; Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times. That gave the ex-President one Old Guard paper...
...wish to correct a misstatement made in the review of my book on ''Spontaneous and Induced Abortion." You say (TIME, March 16): "Dr. Taussig assured doctors that their colleagues have performed therapeutic abortions without professional risk for any one of the following legitimate reasons." You then cite twelve such reasons. These twelve reasons are correctly quoted from p. 279, but they are preceded by the following sentence: "The minor indications for therapeutic abortion give rise to the greatest differences of opinion, according to Whitehouse, who enumerates a wide range of conditions that have been claimed as justifying interruption...
...performing a "criminal operation." He can generally claim that he did it to preserve the life or health of the woman, a legal obligation of his profession. After a search of Federal and state laws, Dr. Taussig assured doctors that their colleagues have performed therapeutic abortions without professional risk for any one of the following legitimate reasons: "1) very recent pregnancy; 2) general debility with loss of weight; 3) after suppurative appendicitis that has produced extensive adhesions; 4) after a previous Caesarean operation; 5) to prevent increasing prolapse of the pelvic organs; 6) after plastic repair of the pelvic eugenic...
...could not do because it would not be "fair to the people of Kansas" to neglect his job as Governor. Second place (20.8%) in the poll went to Senator Borah. That helped even less. Third place (13.2%) went to Colonel Frank Knox. Publisher Knox declined to take the risk. Fourth place (4.1%) went to Herbert Hoover. Mr. Hoover was not even asked. Fifth place (2.9%) went to Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan. He asked to be excused. Sixth place (.6%) to Senator Lester Dickinson of Iowa, who said no thanks...