Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact of this disqualification were barred. No surer way could be devised to bring the processes of justice into disrepute. . . . Despite the privileges accorded to the Negro, we do not think it can be said that the possibility of such prejudice is so remote as to justify the risk of forbidding the inquiry. And this risk becomes most grave when the issue is of life or death...
...difficulties and commitments which this Government does not propose to undertake. The Department recommends to all Americans who do not feel secure ... to withdraw from the country or at least to coast towns whence they can be protected or evacuated. Those who remain do so at their own risk and must not expect American forces to be sent inland to their...
...last two Kings of Siam have fostered temperance and monogamy by precept & example. After studying conditions throughout the Occident, after pondering the advisability of restrictive regulations, King Prajadhipok and his predecessor decided that the risk of inflicting on Siam bootleg liquor and bootleg immorality was too great...
Upshot of two and one-half hours of stimulating but sometimes diffuse conversation?for even the Sage of Adelphi Terrace can be unclear?is that the young lovers (Romney Brent and Peg Entwhistle) decide to risk it and become man and wife, and the one flesh...
...disregard such arguments as the suggestion that hunting saves the stag from dying 'in old age of starvation from loss of teeth'-to accept that might be to run the risk of being invited to hunt old-age pensioners on the ground that we should not only spare them the pain of toothache but also reduce the burden on the National Exchequer. It is about as convincing as the suggestion, supplied by a peer of the realm in a pamphlet recently put out by the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, that the stag deserves to be hunted because...