Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economic sanctions [against treaty violators] cannot be applied without the risk of war, and we cannot undertake any system of sanctions or effective action of this type unless the United States cooperates. . . . It should be recognized that a policy of sanctions cannot be set up like a bottle of medicine for dosage when and where it is needed. This is a matter necessitating the full review of each individual case, and before action of this nature is taken by any power, all interested must formally agree...
David E. Lilienthal of the Tennessee Valley Authority: "If the private utilities are unable or unwilling to clean the slate, they will find it very difficult to convince investors to risk further capital in this essential business. . . . There is no basis for the hysterical cries of those who see, or pretend to see disaster ahead for the electric industry. Can it be that they are deliberately trying to depress the prices of sound senior securities, so that they can be bought in at hysteria prices...
...some little time, it has been increasingly clear that post-war history is repeating prewar history. To make this point is almost to risk belaboring the obvious, but recept events continue to strengthen parallel. Inevitably, the similarities are not exact, and the analogies, or homologies, cannot be dealt with too. Literally, but nevertheless they exist...
...sidewalk. Naturally, some of the methods were rather brutal land some unjust arrests were made. No one was, however, obligated to come to City Square and certainly no one was required to stay; indeed, it should be remembered that one's presence at such a meeting necessarily involves some risk. It cannot be denied that the main purpose was achieved; no demonstration was staged, and in spite of force there were only minor injuries...
...President did not propose to build or repair anyone's house with Federal funds. What he did propose was to stimulate private enterprise to spend hundreds of millions on construction and renovation. This was to be accomplished by the Government's assuming a share of the risk of financing. A Government corporation would be set up, under his plan, to stand a portion of any losses which banks and other lenders might suffer by making loans to home owners for renovation. New construction would be promoted by a Government-sponsored system of guarantee to enlarge the market...