Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comin' up to see" him oftener. In 1908 he got himself elected to Congress in place of Nashville's fire-eating Representative John Wesley Gaines but ever since he has dodged political combat. In 1930 he gave up his ambition to be Senator rather than risk a campaign with Cordell Hull for opponent. In 1933 he gave up his ambition to be Speaker rather than risk a three-cornered fight with Henry Rainey and John McDuffie...
...country runs no risk by releasing itself from its obligations, and if a treaty-breaking State is to be encouraged by impunity," concluded France, "that is equivalent to abolishing the whole idea of contract and obligation. . . . There would soon be no room for any policy but one, force." Within 24 hours Germany had put enough pressure on the all but defenseless Scandinavian countries to transform their Foreign Ministers at Geneva into ardent lobbyists against any Council action which might impute even blame to Germany. Meanwhile Swiss defectives claimed to have unmasked a plot to assassinate the Foreign Ministers of France...
...Since President Roosevelt has raised the value of King George's solid gold dinner service from, $9,000,000 to $16,000,000 (approximate), His Majesty decided last week not to risk it at the Jubilee banquet. Guests will eat off china, may afterward view the gold plates, some of which some of them might have snitched, in a brightly lighted, closely guarded Buckingham Palace showcase. Even a butter plate would have been good...
Whatever loss of efficiency France and Russia may suffer in timed of crisis by appealing to the League, it is worth the risk. Under the forthcoming treaty, the League is given the opportunity of trying to avert the war. If it fails, the military staffs are immediately free to plunge at each other's throat. Once again solicitous France has injected adrenalin into the bloodstream of the League with apparent success...
...Saar so it will be in Danzig. . . . Scorn the carping of whoever says The Leader has embarked on catastrophic policies! . . .Whoever throws the dice for high stakes must risk something. As Nietzsche said 'One must have the courage to live dangerously...