Word: risked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...axiomatic that anything can happen in the publishing business and generally does. However, one thing I never expected to get mixed up in was recipes. Nevertheless, at the risk of temporarily turning this letter into a treatise on cookery. I can now report that we have on hand about 1,000 of your favorite recipes...
...partly because of these crises, I am certain we shall stand by our arms. But if this cold war becomes a war of boredom where the danger is shrewdly concealed, then our resolution may be tested by our willingness to maintain arms. If we fall victim to boredom and risk curtailment of our armed strength, we shall destroy the world's only sturdy barricade against the danger of aggression...
...strength and courage which could prevent war. To build that strength and courage, Europe does need time. The Kremlin, by launching a sudden attack, has the power to refuse Europe the time it needs, and to cut short this period of Europe's moral regeneration. That is the risk. But it is a risk which more & more Western Europeans are willing to take...
...airplanes fly faster & faster, bailing out gets harder & harder. The airstream, pouring past the plane at 500 m.p.h., smacks the would-be "caterpillar" with the force of a padded pile driver. If he survives this blow, he runs the risk of being slammed against the tail surfaces...
...stand . . . the consequences to the schools, to the press, and to the vitality of American freedom may well be very serious indeed. Newspapers and periodicals will be obliged to omit news and comment which any group in any denomination, Catholic or other, regards as objectionable or run the risk of being suppressed in the public schools...